The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
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Adolescent Exposure To Gun Violence
June is Gun Violence Awareness Month. Gun violence not only directly harms the health of victims and witnesses, but also disrupts community social cohesion and norms, which can have serious impacts on public health. The people in communities that have experienced violence can suffer several different adverse consequences, including posttraumatic stress disorder and risky
health behaviors.
In a new article, Sarah James and coauthors analyzed data about adolescents in communities with a deadly gun violence incident in the past year and found that “only 4 percent of White adolescents resided or attended school within 500 meters of a deadly gun violence incident in the past year, versus 36 percent of Black adolescents and 29 percent of Hispanic adolescents.”
Further, James and coauthors found that adolescents in poor and near-poor households were greater than three times more likely to be exposed to deadly gun violence near home or school.
James will appear on an upcoming episode of A Health Podyssey to discuss this research.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Kathleen Uhl, formerly of the US Food and Drug Administration, argues that patient input is critical to bringing more affordable
complex generics to market.
Elevating Voices: Pride Month: In their September 2020 paper, Stephen Bonett and colleagues investigated the association between state-level policies and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake. They found that states with HIV criminalization laws had lower PrEP-to-need ratios, whereas states with
more nondiscrimination laws for sexual and gender minorities had higher ratios.
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