HICRC article wins award for the best article of 2015 in the journal Injury Epidemiology

An article by David Hemenway and Sara Solnick entitled “Children and Unintentional Firearm Death” won the annual Jess Krauss award voted by the editors as the best article in the new journal, Injury Epidemiology.  Using data from the National Violent Death Reporting System, the article showed that the large majority of children aged 0-14 who were killed unintentionally by firearms were shot by other young children or by themselves.  While most children are shot by another, victims aged 2-4 usually shoot themselves.  And while many boys aged 11-14 are shot unintentionally at a friends house, this is not the case for girls, nor for children aged 10 and under.  Such disaggregate information can be crucial for sensible prevention efforts.