Deborah Azrael
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Deborah Azrael is an American public health researcher. She is a research associate in the Harvard School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management, and the associate director of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center. She is also the research director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and a major figure involved in the firearm-related research conducted there.
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Published Works
- Emotional Distress Among LGBT Youth: The Influence of Perceived Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation (2009) (901)
- Household firearm ownership and rates of suicide across the 50 United States. (2007) (235)
- Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths, suicide, and homicide among 5-14 year olds. (2002) (216)
- Suicide mortality in the United States: the importance of attending to method in understanding population-level disparities in the burden of suicide. (2012) (203)
- The epidemiology of case fatality rates for suicide in the northeast. (2004) (194)
- Opioid Analgesics and the Risk of Fractures in Older Adults with Arthritis (2011) (189)
- Household Firearm Ownership and Suicide Rates in the United States (2002) (175)
- The Stock and Flow of U.S. Firearms: Results from the 2015 National Firearms Survey (2017) (171)
- Rates of household firearm ownership and homicide across US regions and states, 1988-1997. (2002) (156)
- The US gun stock: results from the 2004 national firearms survey (2007) (154)
- The association between changes in household firearm ownership and rates of suicide in the United States, 1981–2002 (2006) (150)
- Firearm Storage in Gun-Owning Households with Children: Results of a 2015 National Survey (2018) (144)
- Firearms and suicide in the United States: is risk independent of underlying suicidal behavior? (2013) (139)
- Neighborhood predictors of concealed firearm carrying among children and adolescents: results from the project on human development in Chicago neighborhoods. (2004) (126)
- Cancer and the risk of suicide in older Americans. (2008) (113)
- Bullying and suicidal behaviors among urban high school youth. (2012) (102)
- Suicide Case-Fatality Rates in the United States, 2007 to 2014 (2019) (102)
- State-level homicide victimization rates in the US in relation to survey measures of household firearm ownership, 2001-2003. (2007) (102)
- Homicides by Police: Comparing Counts From the National Violent Death Reporting System, Vital Statistics, and Supplementary Homicide Reports. (2016) (96)
- Firearm storage practices and rates of unintentional firearm deaths in the United States. (2005) (89)
- Association of Increased Safe Household Firearm Storage With Firearm Suicide and Unintentional Death Among US Youths. (2019) (88)
- Recent psychopathology, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts in households with and without firearms: findings from the National Comorbidity Study Replication (2009) (86)
- Firearm availability and suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm deaths among women (2002) (83)
- Are household firearms stored safely? It depends on whom you ask. (2000) (82)
- Risk factors for hip fracture in US men aged 40 through 75 years. (1994) (80)
- Firearms and suicide in US cities (2013) (75)
- Antidepressant dose, age, and the risk of deliberate self-harm. (2014) (75)
- Who are the owners of firearms used in adolescent suicides? (2010) (75)
- The effect of child access prevention laws on unintentional child firearm fatalities, 1979-2000. (2006) (74)
- Firearm availability and unintentional firearm deaths. (2001) (72)
- Perpetration of physical assault against dating partners, peers, and siblings among a locally representative sample of high school students in Boston, Massachusetts. (2010) (70)
- Firearm Acquisition Without Background Checks (2017) (68)
- Suicides and Suicide Attempts Following Homicide (2008) (68)
- Neighborhood-Level Factors Associated with Physical Dating Violence Perpetration: Results of a Representative Survey Conducted in Boston, MA (2011) (66)
- Firearm training and storage. (1995) (63)
- Firearm ownership among American veterans: findings from the 2015 National Firearm Survey (2017) (61)
- Firearms and suicide in the northeast. (2004) (60)
- Risk factors for wrist fracture: effect of age, cigarettes, alcohol, body height, relative weight, and handedness on the risk for distal forearm fractures in men. (1994) (54)
- Suicide among US veterans: A prospective study of 500,000 middle-aged and elderly men. (2009) (52)
- Gun carrying by high school students in Boston, MA: does overestimation of peer gun carrying matter? (2011) (52)
- Creating a Youth Violence Data System for Boston, Massachusetts (2009) (48)
- Are We Missing Something Pertinent? A Bias Analysis of Unmeasured Confounding in the Firearm-Suicide Literature. (2016) (47)
- Firearm Storage in Homes With Children With Self-Harm Risk Factors (2018) (46)
- Veterans and suicide: a reexamination of the National Death Index-linked National Health Interview Survey. (2012) (46)
- Are household firearms stored less safely in homes with adolescents?: Analysis of a national random sample of parents. (2006) (45)
- 'In the safety of your own home': results from a national survey on gun use at home. (2000) (45)
- Method choice in nonfatal self-harm as a predictor of subsequent episodes of self-harm and suicide: implications for clinical practice. (2013) (44)
- Does suicide have a stronger association with seasonality than sunlight? (2015) (44)
- 'Road rage' in Arizona: armed and dangerous. (2002) (44)
- Public Opinion Regarding Whether Speaking With Patients About Firearms Is Appropriate (2016) (43)
- Variation in Rates of Fatal Police Shootings across US States: the Role of Firearm Availability (2018) (43)
- Firearm purchasing and storage during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) (42)
- Gun use in the United States: results from two national surveys (2000) (39)
- Batterers' use of guns to threaten intimate partners. (2005) (39)
- Association between neighborhood safety and overweight status among urban adolescents (2009) (38)
- SSRI use and risk of fractures among perimenopausal women without mental disorders (2015) (38)
- Firearm Storage Practices Among American Veterans. (2018) (37)
- National attitudes concerning gun carrying in the United States (2001) (36)
- Underestimates of unintentional firearm fatalities: comparing Supplementary Homicide Report data with the National Vital Statistics System (2002) (36)
- Firearms and Community Feelings of Safety (1995) (35)
- Belief in the inevitability of suicide: results from a national survey. (2006) (34)
- "Hey, let me hold your guns for a while": A qualitative study of messaging for firearm suicide prevention. (2019) (33)
- Type of Firearm Used in Suicides: Findings From 13 States in the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2005-2015. (2019) (32)
- The Relative Frequency of Offensive and Defensive Gun Uses: Results From a National Survey (2000) (32)
- Serotonin–Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use and Risk of Fractures: A New-User Cohort Study Among US Adults Aged 50 Years and Older (2015) (31)
- Creating a National Violent Death Reporting System: a successful beginning. (2009) (31)
- Firearm Purchasing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results From the 2021 National Firearms Survey (2021) (30)
- Antidepressant Class, Age, and the Risk of Deliberate Self-Harm: A Propensity Score Matched Cohort Study of SSRI and SNRI Users in the USA (2013) (29)
- Public Opinion About the Relationship Between Firearm Availability and Suicide: Results From a National Survey (2018) (29)
- Changes in Firearm and Medication Storage Practices in Homes of Youths at Risk for Suicide: Results of the SAFETY Study, a Clustered, Emergency Department-Based, Multisite, Stepped-Wedge Trial. (2020) (28)
- The effect of nondiscretionary concealed weapon carrying laws on homicide. (2004) (27)
- ‘Lock to Live’: development of a firearm storage decision aid to enhance lethal means counselling and prevent suicide (2018) (27)
- Whose guns are stolen? The epidemiology of Gun theft victims (2017) (26)
- Validating the National Violent Death Reporting System as a Source of Data on Fatal Shootings of Civilians by Law Enforcement Officers (2019) (26)
- Firearm ownership and acquisition in California: findings from the 2018 California Safety and Well-being Survey (2019) (26)
- Differences Between New and Long-Standing US Gun Owners: Results From a National Survey (2018) (25)
- A Typology of Civilians Shot and Killed by US Police: a Latent Class Analysis of Firearm Legal Intervention Homicide in the 2014–2015 National Violent Death Reporting System (2020) (25)
- A "call to arms" for a national reporting system on firearm injuries. (2000) (25)
- Firearm Storage Practices and Risk Perceptions Among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Veterans With and Without Self-Harm Risk Factors. (2019) (24)
- Explaining geographic patterns of suicide in the US: the role of firearms and antidepressants (2014) (23)
- Community Firearms, Community Fear (2000) (22)
- Formal firearm training among adults in the USA: results of a national survey (2017) (21)
- US Public Opinion on Carrying Firearms in Public Places. (2017) (21)
- Youth suicide: insights from 5 years of Arizona Child Fatality Review Team data. (2004) (21)
- Firearms training and storage practices among US gun owners: a nationally representative study (2019) (20)
- Fighting With Siblings and With Peers Among Urban High School Students (2015) (20)
- Predicting persistence to antidepressant treatment in administrative claims data: Considering the influence of refill delays and prior persistence on other medications. (2016) (19)
- Does neighborhood collective efficacy for families change over time? The Boston Neighborhood Survey. (2014) (18)
- Gun ownership among US women (2018) (18)
- Views on Firearm Safety Among Caregivers of People With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementias (2020) (17)
- Dosing of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Among Children and Adults Before and After the FDA Black-Box Warning. (2016) (17)
- Loaded Handgun Carrying Among US Adults, 2015 (2017) (17)
- Parent and Adolescent Reports of Adolescent Access to Household Firearms in the United States (2021) (17)
- Identifying and Tracking Gas Suicides in the U.S. Using the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2005-2012. (2016) (16)
- An Interactive Web-Based Lethal Means Safety Decision Aid for Suicidal Adults (Lock to Live): Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (2020) (16)
- Immigration, suicidal ideation and deliberate self-injury in the Boston youth survey 2006. (2011) (15)
- History of military service and the risk of suicidal ideation: findings from the 2008 national survey on drug use and health. (2011) (15)
- A truly national National Violent Death Reporting System (2013) (14)
- Fatal police shootings of civilians, by rurality. (2020) (13)
- Greater than the Sum of their Parts: The benefits of Youth Violence Prevention Centers (2011) (12)
- A call to link data to answer pressing questions about suicide risk among veterans. (2012) (12)
- Patterns of gun owner beliefs about firearm risk in relation to firearm storage: a latent class analysis using the 2019 National Firearms Survey (2020) (11)
- Relation between neighborhood socio-economic characteristics and social cohesion, social control, and collective efficacy: Findings from the Boston Neighborhood Study (2015) (11)
- Reducing Suicide Without Affecting Underlying Mental Health (2016) (11)
- The US Public's Preference for Safer Guns. (2016) (10)
- Linking Public Safety And Public Health Data For Firearm Suicide Prevention In Utah. (2019) (9)
- Firearm Storage Practices and Risk Perceptions. (2019) (9)
- Firearm Storage in US Households With Children (2022) (9)
- Reducing Suicide Without Affecting Underlying Mental Health Theoretical Underpinnings and a Review of the Evidence Base Linking the Availability of Lethal Means and Suicide (2016) (9)
- Study findings on FDA antidepressant warnings and suicide attempts in young people: a false alarm? (2014) (8)
- Firearm Safety Discussions Between Clinicians and U.S. Adults Living in Households With Firearms: Results From a 2019 National Survey (2020) (7)
- Child Access Prevention Laws and Firearm Storage: Results From a National Survey. (2022) (7)
- Lethal Means Assessment and Counseling in the Emergency Department: Differences by Provider Type and Personal Home Firearms. (2020) (7)
- Selling a gun to a stranger without a background check: acceptable behaviour? (2017) (6)
- “Safety in Dementia”: Development of an Online Caregiver Tool for Firearm, Driving, and Home Safety (2020) (6)
- Americans Who Become a New Versus a Former Gun Owner: Implications for Youth Suicide and Unintentional Firearm Injury. (2019) (6)
- Honor-Related Suicide in the United States: A Study of National Violent Death Reporting System Data (2019) (6)
- Older Firearm Owners and Advance Planning: Results of a National Survey (2020) (5)
- Lessons learned in conducting youth suicide prevention research in emergency departments (2019) (5)
- Losing the forest for the trees. (2014) (5)
- Public Perceptions of Firearm- and NonFirearm-Related Violent Death in the United States: A National Study (2018) (4)
- Access to firearms and adolescent suicide (2020) (4)
- Selection and Use of Firearm and Medication Locking Devices in a Lethal Means Counseling Intervention. (2022) (4)
- ‘It’s changed how we have these conversations’: emergency department clinicians’ experiences implementing firearms and other lethal suicide methods counseling for caregivers of adolescents (2021) (4)
- Connecting the Disconnected: A Pilot Survey of High Risk Youth by High Risk Youth (2010) (3)
- Public Perceptions of Firearm- and Non–Firearm-Related Violent Death in the United States: A National Study (2018) (3)
- Perspectives on clinician-delivered firearm safety counseling during routine care: Results of a national survey. (2022) (3)
- Who owned the gun in firearm suicides of men, women, and youth in five US states? (2022) (3)
- Assessment of the Accuracy of Firearm Injury Intent Coding at 3 US Hospitals (2022) (3)
- Access to Firearms and Youth Suicide in the US: Implications for Clinical Interventions (2021) (3)
- Firearm purchases without background checks in California. (2021) (2)
- REDUCTION IN FFLS: A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION (2002) (2)
- Receipt of clinician-delivered firearm safety counseling among U.S. Veterans: Results from a 2019 national survey. (2022) (2)
- A Pilot Trial of Suicidal Adults Within Emergency Departments: Enrollment Challenges and Strategies Related to Firearm Access (2020) (2)
- The contribution of method choice to gender disparity in suicide mortality: A population-based study in Hong Kong and the United States of America. (2021) (2)
- Access to Firearms, Homicide, and Suicide: Role of the Mortality Multiplier. (2020) (2)
- Hospital visit histories of suicide decedents: a study in Utah (2022) (2)
- Using multiple imputation by super learning to assign intent to nonfatal firearm injuries. (2022) (1)
- 0112 The number and type of private firearms in the United States: results from the 2019 national firearms survey (2021) (1)
- Identifying Occupation Groups for Suicide Prevention: A Statewide Data Linkage Study (2022) (1)
- What Is Safe Household Firearm Storage to Prevent Deaths Among US Youths?-Reply. (2019) (1)
- Knowledge of State Gun Laws Among US Adults in Gun-Owning Households (2021) (1)
- Book Review: Lee, R. M., & Stanko, E. (Eds.). (2003). Researching Violence: Essays on Methodology and Measurement. London: Routledge, Pp. xi, 242 (2007) (1)
- Firearm Training and Storage-Reply (1995) (1)
- Firearm-related research articles in health sciences by funding status and type: A scoping review (2021) (1)
- Classifying Firearm Injury Intent in Electronic Hospital Records Using Natural Language Processing (2023) (1)
- Letter: Carbon monoxide poisonings are a leading cause of unintentional home injury (2010) (1)
- Letter to the Editor (2010) (1)
- Lucas Study Shows Need to Improve Trauma Registry Severity Data (2002) (1)
- Firearm Background Checks in States With and Without Background Check Laws. (2021) (1)
- Cook and Ludwig's Principles for Effective Gun Policy: An Extension to Suicide Prevention (2004) (0)
- VeteransandSuicide:AReexaminationoftheNational DeathIndex-LinkedNationalHealthInterviewSurvey (2012) (0)
- Reprint of "Using multiple imputation by super learning to assign intent to nonfatal firearm injuries". (2022) (0)
- Homicides by law enforcement: case definitions matter (2022) (0)
- MethodChoiceinNonfatalSelf-HarmasaPredictor ofSubsequentEpisodesofSelf-HarmandSuicide: ImplicationsforClinicalPractice (2013) (0)
- 90 Loaded handgun carrying among adults in the united states: results of a national survey (2017) (0)
- 2013 Reviewers (2013) (0)
- Time to Take Myocardial Reperfusion Injury Seriously (2008) (0)
- An Interactive Web-Based Lethal Means Safety Decision Aid for Suicidal Adults (Lock to Live): Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint) (2019) (0)
- Perceptions of firearm-related harm among US adults living in firearm-owning households: a nationally representative study (2021) (0)
- Contribution Suicide Among US Veterans : A Prospective Study of 500 , 000 Middle-aged and Elderly Men (2009) (0)
- Collective Efficacy for Family Scale (2014) (0)
- Trend in Loaded Handgun Carrying Among Adult Handgun Owners in the United States, 2015‒2019. (2022) (0)
- Are guns used more by US civilians for self-defense or for intimidation? (2001) (0)
- Parental Perceptions of Their Children's Access to Household Firearms. (2022) (0)
- Perceptions of Firearm Accessibility and Suicide Among US Adults Living in Households With Firearms (2022) (0)
- Black Household gun ownership and black suicide rates across U.S. States. (2023) (0)
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