TY - JOUR
T1 - Gun violence
T2 - A biopsychosocial disease
AU - Hargarten, Stephen W.
AU - Lerner, E. Brooke
AU - Gorelick, Marc
AU - Brasel, Karen
AU - DeRoon-Cassini, Terri
AU - Kohlbeck, Sara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Hargarten et al.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Gun violence is a complex biopsychosocial disease and as such, requires a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and treatment. Framing gun violence as a disease places it firmly within medical and public health practice. By applying the disease model to gun violence, it is possible to explore the host, agent, and environment in which gun violence occurs, and to identify risk factors to target for prevention. This approach also provides an opportunity to address scientifically inaccurate assumptions about gun violence. In addition, there are many opportunities for medical communities to treat gun violence as a disease by considering and treating the biologic, behavioral, and social aspects of this disease. The medical community must answer recent calls to engage in gun violence prevention, and employing this model of gun violence as a biopsychosocial disease provides a framework for engagement.
AB - Gun violence is a complex biopsychosocial disease and as such, requires a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and treatment. Framing gun violence as a disease places it firmly within medical and public health practice. By applying the disease model to gun violence, it is possible to explore the host, agent, and environment in which gun violence occurs, and to identify risk factors to target for prevention. This approach also provides an opportunity to address scientifically inaccurate assumptions about gun violence. In addition, there are many opportunities for medical communities to treat gun violence as a disease by considering and treating the biologic, behavioral, and social aspects of this disease. The medical community must answer recent calls to engage in gun violence prevention, and employing this model of gun violence as a biopsychosocial disease provides a framework for engagement.
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U2 - 10.5811/westjem.2018.7.38021
DO - 10.5811/westjem.2018.7.38021
M3 - Article
C2 - 30429937
AN - SCOPUS:85056111725
SN - 1936-900X
VL - 19
SP - 1024
EP - 1027
JO - Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
JF - Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
IS - 6
ER -