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The Public Health Approach to Firearm Violence

What is it, Why Do We Need It?

by Victor W. Sidel, MD

Of all the approaches to ending firearm violence, including legal and regulatory, correctional, educational, economic, human rights, and international treaties, the public health approach has been relatively little used.

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  • Public Health and Social Justice Reader

    Martin T. Donohoe, MD, is adjunct associate professor in Community Health at Portland State University. He is chief scientific advisor to Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility's Campaign for Safe Foods. Read more »

  • Niños Seguros y Sanos: Safe and Healthy Children

    This one-year pilot program aimed to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate training resource guide, complete with several trainer tools as well as fact-sheets and case studies about environmental health for staff of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and the Migrant and Seasonal Health Clinics. Read more »

  • Environmental Justice and Toxic Chemical Exposures

    Healthcare providers and public health practitioners know that disadvantaged communities suffer from chronic disease -- asthma, heart disease, obesity, cancer, and others -- at far greater rates than do others. From PSR's Environmental Health Policy Institute. Read more »

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