Health Policy and Gun Violence

<p>TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses the subject of gun violence and death.</p><p>Health Affairs's Jessica Bylander and Vabren Watts discuss this week's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas and the recent history of gun policy in the United States.</p><p>Violence permeates our society. One response to violence is to better understand its origins and how to prevent it.</p><p>We invite you to read the <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/38/10?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_term=this+week">Violence and Health</a> issue of <em>Health Affairs </em>from 2019<em> </em>to better understand the impacts that gun violence has on communities. The issue will be open access and free to read until June 1, 2022.</p><p>For Mental Health Awareness month, we'd like to share the reminder that if you are experiencing a mental health emergency, you can call the national helpline at 1-800-662-HELP for support.</p><p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p><ul> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/toc/hlthaff/38/10?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_term=this+week">Violence and Health</a> (<em>Health Affairs</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.02295?utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_source=this+week&amp;utm_term=this+week">Adolescent Exposure To Deadly Gun Violence Within 500 Meters Of Home Or School: Ethnoracial And Income Disparities</a> (<em>Health Affairs</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/22/guns-biden-democrats-buffalo/">From Sandy Hook to Buffalo and Uvalde: Ten years of failure on gun control</a> (<em>The Washington Post</em>)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761">Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States</a> (<em>New England Journal of Medicine</em>)</li> </ul><p>Subscribe: <a href="https://feeds.transistor.fm/health-affairs-this-week">RSS</a> | <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-affairs-this-week/id1542