News Medical Health Sciences

MARCH 13, 2025

Seven years ago, Erica Green learned through a Facebook post that her brother had been shot.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Additional resources The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research supports rigorous research that broadens agreement on the facts associated with gun policy and promotes the development of fair and effective policies on preventing gun violence.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 22, 2025

Hospital-based interventions also use the credible messenger approach to work with gun violence victims and their families to deter them from retaliation and connect them to social services. Cure Violence works nationally and internationally and is a valuable source of information on gun violence prevention.

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In addition, a growing group of Family Readiness Officers were specifically assigned to this effort. NC Health News reached out to officials at Fort Liberty, who initially agreed to be interviewed after reading the report.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The letter requests $697 million for the National Immunization Program to modernize immunization systems, $508 million for opioid overdose prevention, and $12.5 million for gun violence prevention research.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Thanks to the nonprofit Brady United, doctors are no longer staying in their lanes when it comes to gun violence prevention. The organization, dedicated to advocating for gun violence control and prevention, recently published a resource guide featuring practical tips and strategies for talking to patients about firearm access.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It is important to note that these injuries and deaths are often preventable, and that there is a public health and financial return on prevention investment through implementation of research-based policies and programs.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

We have also covered the role physicians play in firearm violence prevention, especially counseling on lethal means.

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Maternal Health Task Force

AUGUST 5, 2024

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research supports rigorous research that broadens agreement on the facts associated with gun policy and promotes the development of fair and effective policies for preventing gun violence.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Download PDF 129.0KB Read the full letter Related content BCHC supports Kid PROOF Act to prevent youth suicide and overdose Big Cities Health Coalition urges highest CDC funding for FY25 Public health advocates call for increased funding for firearm violence prevention research in FY25 The post BCHC urges Congress to invest in CDC’s Comprehensive (..)

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Public Health Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We’re proud to be partnering with the Seahawks to host a free gun lockbox giveaway at Lumen Field, to give away 3,000 free gun lockboxes. The event will be held on September 26, from 10 AM to 2 PM, at Muckleshoot Plaza at Lumen Field. All are welcome, and free gun lockboxes will be available while supplies last.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Researchers found that intimate partner violence for these women spiked from 17.9% The study also examined successful violence prevention programs. at six months postpartum to 25.3% at 12 months postpartum.

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

They also discuss gun violence prevention legislation that was introduced in the House by Rep. In this week’s episode of Podcast from Washington, Ian Goldstein and Eli Briggs discuss the possibility of another government shutdown. Robin Kelly (D-IL).

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Maternal Health Task Force

JUNE 4, 2024

Africa Job Organization Location (Country) International Consultant to carry out a desk search on the dynamic of youth institutions and organizations in Guinea-Bissau UNFPA Guinea-Bissau Programme Coordinator: Resource Mobilization (RM) Partnerships, Lilongwe, Malawi, P3 UNFPA Malawi Program Manager CHAI Uganda Program Manager, Health System Strengthening (..)

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UNC Epidemiology Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

My first foray into emergency response was after September 11, 2001, when I had been working on injury and violence prevention for schools. Can you describe a time when you’ve pivoted in your public health career? I have been at the CDC for 27 years now. We realized we needed to add a section on responding to emergencies.

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Public Health Insider

AUGUST 16, 2024

Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S., surgeon general declared gun violence a national public health crisis. The post Gun violence is a public health crisis, and we’re taking action in King County appeared first on PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER. In June, the U.S.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sangmi Kim, an Emory University assistant nursing professor and co-chair of the school’s Violence Prevention Task Force, said that through policy, governments can create an environment where the risk of violence at home is lower.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The paucity of injury and violence prevention epidemiologists is especially striking, as unintentional injury is the third leading cause of death in the United States.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

MARCH 14, 2025

Region VII Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska Monica Goedken, MPA Monica Goedken is the Violence Prevention Coordinator and Rape Prevention and Education Program Director with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-3) and Representative Dan Newhouse (R-WA-4), reintroduced this bipartisan legislation on January 31, 2023, which revises key programs established by the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act. cases for every 1,000 children.

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Better Health For All

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The UK government published their Tackling Violence against Women and Girls Strategy in 2021, [14] setting out a multi-agency framework to address this crisis.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 13, 2025

Can you walk us through some of the violence prevention methods you learned about over the course of reporting, like conducting threat assessments or connecting troubled students to services? It was through that process that we discovered that MNPD did not know about the Clarksville incident.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

So Abarca offered her an internship, helping him establish a Jackson County Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a plan he introduced in July in response to the parade shootings. .” Before the parade, Cabrera was offered a factory job where her sister worked, but she hadn’t started because her leg was still healing.

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Environmental Health News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Other familiar statistics round out the story of our societys demotion of women and children. Food and Drug Administration did not require women to be included in clinical trials until 1993.

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Later in the program, Ian sits down with Francis Higgins, NACCHO’s Injury and Violence Prevention Program Analyst, to discuss NACCHO’s Environmental Scan Report. They also discuss how Congress is dealing with the youth vaping epidemic, and the latest news related to the mysterious vaping illness.

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KFF Health News

MARCH 13, 2025

As a violence prevention professional with the At-Risk Intervention and Mentoring program , or AIM, Morgan supports gun-violence patients and their families at the hospital as he did the day Green’s brother was shot. billion in funding for a wide array of violence-prevention programs through next year.

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