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Suicide Differences by Region Related to Gun Availability

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🗓️ 28 January 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The presence of a gun increases the likelihood that someone in the home will die a violent death, particularly by suicide.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific Americans Americans 60 Second Science. I'm Steve Mursky. Got a minute?

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One of the things we know for sure in the United States is that a gun in the home increases the likelihood that

0:43.9

someone in the home will die a violent death from gun accidents from a woman

0:49.3

being murdered by a man in an intimate part of violence situation and particularly by suicide.

0:55.2

David Hemenway, he's the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.

0:59.8

He's also a professor of health policy and management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.

1:06.2

The gun violence discussion often seems to give short shrift to suicide, even though more

1:11.0

than 60% of the approximately 32,000 annual US firearms deaths are suicides,

1:18.0

Hemenway spoke January 26th at a Harvard School of Public Health Forum on gun violence as a public health issue.

1:24.7

The evidence is overwhelming from case control studies and ecological studies, for example,

1:29.5

why do we have very different suicide rates across cities across

1:33.0

states, across regions in the United States.

1:34.8

Explain the differences in suicide rates across states.

1:38.0

Turns out it's not well explained at all

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