Youth Firearm Mortality in the Americas From 2015 to 2022

Michelle Degli Esposti; Christian D Pulcini; Eric William Fleegler; Eugenio Weigend Vargas; Laura Vargas; Adriana Yock-Corrales; Stephen Hargarten

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.37395

Youth Firearm Mortality in the Americas From 2015 to 2022

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 1;7(10):e2437395. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.37395.

Authors

Michelle Degli Esposti¹, Christian D Pulcini², Eric William Fleegler^{3

4

5}, Eugenio Weigend Vargas¹, Laura Vargas⁶, Adriana Yock-Corrales⁷, Stephen Hargarten⁸

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
² Department of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Vermont Medical Center and Children's Hospital, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington.
³ Departments of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
⁶ Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver.
⁷ Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Nacional de Niños "Dr Carlos Saenz Herrera," CCSS, San José, Costa Rica.
⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

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Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study uses national vital statistics on firearm mortality to investigate trends in firearm deaths among youths in the US, Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Americas / epidemiology
Child
Female
Firearms* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Wounds, Gunshot* / mortality
Young Adult