Researchers collected data on firearm injuries and deaths from 2019 to 2020 in the United States to determine how many injuries occurred among various racial and ethnic groups.
The study measured the prevalence of fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries in the United States from 2019 to 2020 and the number of injuries resulting in death as calculated by case fatality ratios .All firearm injuries in the United States were analyzed. Race and ethnicity were grouped into five categories: Asian or Pacific Islander, Black, Hispanic, Native American, and White.A total of 252,376 firearm injuries occurred during the study period, of which 84,908 were fatal. Of those, 37.
Black American and Native American individuals had the highest rates of firearm injuries caused by law enforcement. More than half of these injuries in Native American people were fatal, the highest rate among any of the groups in the study. Black people had the highest rates of firearm injuries linked to assaults , as well as unintentional firearm injuries ."Our study documents that firearm injury and death remain a major public health problem in the United States, with notable differences across race and ethnicity, gender, age, and rurality," the authors wrote."Better data to more accurately capture underlying causes of firearm injury and case fatality are needed to focus resources and interventions.
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