Association of Community Vulnerability and State Gun Laws With Firearm Deaths in Children and Adolescents Aged 10 to 19 Years.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Firearm-related injuries are the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the US. For youths aged 10 to 19 years, 64% of firearm-related deaths are due to assault. Understanding the association between the rate of death due to assault-related firearm injury and both community-level vulnerability and state-level gun laws may inform prevention efforts and public health policy.

Objective

To assess the rate of death due to assault-related firearm injury stratified by community-level social vulnerability and state-level gun laws in a national cohort of youths aged 10 to 19 years.

Design, setting, and participants

This national cross-sectional study used the Gun Violence Archive to identify all assault-related firearm deaths among youths aged 10 t

SUBMITTER: Kwon EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10209744 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature