New research highlights lack of gun violence prevention measures [yaledailynews.com]

Alicia Doktor 2/6/194:00 AM

A new joint Yale–University of Pennsylvania study found that there is an extreme lack of violence intervention services for victims of gun-related violence.

Published in JAMA Surgery on Jan. 23, the collaborative effort by Yale and Penn researchers used data concerning firearm injuries treated at emergency departments in the United States from 2009 to 2014 to reach this conclusion.

“Our study suggests that only 20 percent of all firearm injury victims are eligible for receiving any prevention services,” said Edouard Coupet, professor at the Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

[For more on this story by ISHANA AGGARWAL, go to https://yaledailynews.com/blog...prevention-measures/]

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