Building community resilience to prevent and mitigate community impact of gun violence: conceptual framework and intervention design.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The USA has the highest rate of community gun violence of any developed democracy. There is an urgent need to develop feasible, scalable and community-led interventions that mitigate incident gun violence and its associated health impacts. Our community-academic research team received National Institutes of Health funding to design a community-led intervention that mitigates the health impacts of living in communities with high rates of gun violence.

Methods and analysis

We adapted 'Building Resilience to Disasters', a conceptual framework for natural disaster preparedness, to guide actions of multiple sectors and the broader community to respond to the man-made disaster of gun violence. Using this framework, we will identify existing community assets to be buil

SUBMITTER: Wang EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552873 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature