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Why firearm injury surveillance?
1Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-1996, USA.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
|October 29, 1998
Abstract:
With the current progress of state firearm injury surveillance systems reported in this issue of the Journal, questions about the logical progression of these efforts are being raised. This article reviews the current state of firearm injury data, discusses the importance of firearm injury surveillance, and offers suggestions for maximizing the potential of future efforts in this area.