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July 2006, Vol 96, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1149
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.087965

LETTER

INCOMPLETE PRIORITIES: IGNORING THE ROLE OF FIREARMS IN US SUICIDES

Susan B. Sorenson, PhD and Matthew Miller, MD, ScD, MPH

Susan B. Sorenson is with the Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles. Matthew Miller is with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Susan B. Sorenson, PhD, UCLA School of Public Health, 650 C.E. Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095–1772 (e-mail: sorenson@ucla.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

Knox and Caine, authors of the recent article "Establishing Priorities for Reducing Suicide and Its Antecedents in the United States," admonish the public health community for neglecting the toll of suicide among men in their middle years.1 We find no fault with the article as a piece of descriptive epidemiology. However, in an article claiming to establish priorities for reducing suicide in the United States, the authors’ disregard of the central role of firearms in American suicides is a stunning oversight. Nowhere is it noted, for example, that firearms are the mechanism involved in more than half of all US . . . [Full Text]






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