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More than 30,000 people die each year from gun violence in the United States, a higher rate of death than any industrialized country in the world.
Funding and publication of gun violence research are disproportionately low compared to other leading causes of death in the United States, suggested a new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
‘Over a ten-year period, in relation to mortality rates, gun violence was the least-researched cause of death and the second-least funded cause of death, after falls.’
The study also determined that over a ten-year period, in relation to mortality rates, gun violence was the least-researched cause of death and the second-least funded cause of death, after falls.
Researchers analyzed mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2004 to 2014 to determine the top 30 causes of death in the U.S.
Findings indicated that gun violence killed about as many people as sepsis; however, funding for gun violence research was about 0.7% of that for sepsis, and publication volume was about 4%.
“We’re spending and publishing far less than what we ought to be based on the number of people who are dying,” said David E. Stark, Assistant Professor, Department of Health System Design and Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and lead author of the study.
“Research is the first stop on the road to public health improvement, and we’re not seeing that with gun violence the way we did with automobile deaths.”
Source: Eurekalert
More than 30,000 people die each year from gun violence in the United States, a higher rate of death than any industrialized country in the world.
Funding and publication of gun violence research are disproportionately low compared to other leading causes of death in the United States, suggested a new research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
‘Over a ten-year period, in relation to mortality rates, gun violence was the least-researched cause of death and the second-least funded cause of death, after falls.’
The study also determined that over a ten-year period, in relation to mortality rates, gun violence was the least-researched cause of death and the second-least funded cause of death, after falls.
Researchers analyzed mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2004 to 2014 to determine the top 30 causes of death in the U.S.
Findings indicated that gun violence killed about as many people as sepsis; however, funding for gun violence research was about 0.7% of that for sepsis, and publication volume was about 4%.
“We’re spending and publishing far less than what we ought to be based on the number of people who are dying,” said David E. Stark, Assistant Professor, Department of Health System Design and Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and lead author of the study.
“Research is the first stop on the road to public health improvement, and we’re not seeing that with gun violence the way we did with automobile deaths.”
Source: Eurekalert
