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Bailey K Roberts^1,2, Colleen P Nofi^1,2, Emma Cornell³

¹Division of Pediatric Surgery, Cohen Children's Medical Center, Queens, New York.

|August 21, 2023

概括

枪支死亡仍然是美国儿童死亡的主要原因,从2018年到2021年,死亡率增加了41.6%. 差距的加剧和与贫困的强烈相关性凸显了针对性预防策略的迫切需要.

科学领域:

公共卫生公共卫生
流行病学流行病学
儿科死亡率儿科死亡率

背景情况:

2020年,枪支伤害超过了美国儿童和青少年死亡的所有其他原因.
本研究检查了2021年关于儿科枪支死亡和相关差异的最新数据,以确定趋势.

研究的目的:

评估2021年美国儿科枪支死亡和差异数据.
了解与前几年相比,儿童枪支死亡率的趋势.

主要方法:

利用疾病控制和预防中心的流行病学研究 (WONDER) 数据库的广泛在线数据.
分析了2018年至2021年儿童和青少年的枪支死亡率数据,包括每10万人的死亡率.
绘制了地理差异的地图,并计算了枪支死亡率与州贫困水平之间的相关性.

主要成果:

枪支仍然是2021年美国儿童死亡的主要原因,死亡率从2018年到2021年增加了41.6%.
在2021年,枪支死亡不成比例地影响了男性 (84.8%),黑人儿童 (49.9%) 和15-19岁的青少年 (82.6%). 凶杀案占死亡人数的64.3%,黑人儿童的死亡人数显著增加.
黑人和白人儿童的自杀率增加,而枪支死亡率显示南方和中西部州的集群恶化,与较高的贫困水平有很强的相关性 (R = 0.76).

结论:

美国儿童枪支死亡人数在2021年继续上升,加剧了现有的差异.
针对性预防战略和政策的紧急实施对受枪支暴力影响最严重的社区至关重要.

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