142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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What We Don't Know Can Kill Us: Confronting Gun Violence With Data

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Wednesday, November 19, 2014: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
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For decades, progress in gun violence reduction has been stymied by limited access to data that are essential for measuring and characterizing gun crime, developing evidence-based interventions to reduce it, and evaluating their effectiveness. But today across the country, researchers, cities, and private companies are finding ways to break through the gridlock by creating new tools for understanding and reducing gun violence
Session Objectives: -Define Issues as it relates to violence in all areas; -Explain the lack of progress in gun violence reduction has been stymied by limited access to data that are essential for measuring and characterizing gun crime; -Describe evidence-based interventions to reduce it, and evaluating their effectiveness. -Identify the methods in which researchers, cities, and private companies are finding ways to break through the gridlock by creating new tools for understanding and reducing gun violence
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Organized by: Black Caucus of Health Workers
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Caucus on Homelessness