@inbook{42e330660337489db51bff025f768ef1,
title = "Firearm Violence in America: Is There a Solution?",
keywords = "Death, Firearms, Gun violence, Injury, Public health, Suicide, Trauma",
author = "Choron, {Rachel L.} and Sarabeth Spitzer and Sakran, {Joseph V.}",
note = "Funding Information: In 1996, Congress passed the Dickey Amendment in the omnibus spending bill mandating that none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the CDC could be used to “advocate or promote gun control” [24] . In addition, in that same spending bill, Congress stripped the CDC of 2.6 million dollars, which happened to be the exact amount allocated in the prior year to firearm research. These actions severely limited research funding dedicated to firearm-related violence over the past 2 decades [25] . In 2011, this was extended to include all federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) [26] . More recently, in 2013, President Obama signed an executive order permitting the CDC to study or sponsor research dedicated to firearm injury prevention [27] . Although this executive order created opportunities for funding injury prevention secondary to firearm-related injury and death, Congress has failed to appropriate the necessary funds to allow for research in this arena. Funding Information: As discussed, firearm-related research is drastically underfunded and does not match the national burden of disease. Improving funding is absolutely critical to produce high-quality, rigorous academic analysis of firearm injury in the United States and is the best way to prevent it. The CDC, the NIH, and the National Institute of Justice need to increase funding allocation toward firearm injury–prevention research. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.yasu.2019.04.019",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780323722582",
series = "Advances in Surgery",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
pages = "195--208",
editor = "Cameron, {John L.}",
booktitle = "Advances in Surgery",
}