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Protective & Risk Factors

Protective and Risk factors are conditions that are associated with an increased or decreased risk of a health outcome. Public health recognizes that disease and other health events do not occur randomly in a population. They are more likely to occur in some members of the population than others because risk factors are not distributed randomly in the population. As a public health problem, firearm violence is also not random. Firearm violence encompasses several issues, and while firearms are typically the vector by which injury or crime is committed, the root causes of violence are complex and varied.

Evaluating the Health Care Risk Factors for Firearm Death

ObjectivesThe broad objective of the proposed study addresses Healthy New Jersey 2020 to reduce various forms of gun-related violent death in New...

Merging Victim and Perpetrator Health Data with Criminal Justice Data

Objective:To examine the criminal risk factors and health risk factors associated with being a victim and/or perpetrator of firearm injury in NJ. ...

Identification of Health Risk Factors for Firearm Injury

Objective:To identify health care settings in which primary or secondary firearm violence prevention efforts should be focused on. We hypothesize that there...

Geospatial Patterns in Firearm Violence

Objective:To describe and compare severe firearm injury events to other elements, such as incident location, proximity to home, time of day, spatial...