This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (13)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related letter  • Similar articles in JAMA  Topic Collections  • Medical Practice  • Health Policy  • Violence and Human Rights  • Violence and Human Rights, Other  • Alert me on articles by topic  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Building on Success

Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH

JAMA. 1999;282:475-478.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, a true epidemic of firearm-related interpersonal violence developed in the United States. Commentators noted that the concurrent decline in motor vehicle–related injuries had resulted from a comprehensive intervention strategy rooted in the principles of public health and disease prevention. They proposed similar strategies for preventing firearm-related violence.^1-2

Since 1993, rates of firearm-related violence have been declining. The decrease is substantial: in 1997, the firearm homicide rate in the United States was 4.6 per 100,000 persons per year,³ comparable to rates seen last in the mid-1960s and briefly in the mid-1980s. Preliminary Federal Bureau of Investigation data for 1998 show a further 8% decrease in homicides overall.⁴

What exactly has been accomplished, and how has it been done? Since the early 1970s the nation's firearm homicide rate has shown no long-term trend but has both risen and fallen. Is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Dr Wintemute is director of the Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

RELATED LETTER

Violence Prevention and Concealed Weapons Laws
John R. Lott, Jr and Garen J. Wintemute
JAMA. 2000;283(9):1137-1138.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT  

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

How the Law Affects Gun Policy in the United States: Law as Intervention or Obstacle to Prevention
Vernick and Mair
J Law Med Ethics 2002;30:692-704.
 

Preventing Lethal Violence in Schools: The Case for Entry-Based Weapons Screening
Mawson et al.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 2002;27:243-260.
ABSTRACT  

Repeat Victims of Violence--Invited Critique
Fallat
Arch Surg 2000;135:843-843.
FULL TEXT  

Violence Prevention and Concealed Weapons Laws
Lott and Wintemute
JAMA 2000;283:1137-1138.
FULL TEXT  

Youth Violence Prevention: The Physician's Role
Christoffel et al.
JAMA 2000;283:1202-1203.
FULL TEXT  

What Can We Do About Violence?
Cole and Flanagin
JAMA 1999;282:481-483.
FULL TEXT