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Modeling recent gun purchases: A social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race
| العنوان: | Modeling recent gun purchases: A social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race |
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| المؤلفون: | Terrence D. Hill, Ming Wen, Christopher G. Ellison, Guangzhen Wu, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, Dejun Su |
| المصدر: | Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 24, Iss , Pp 101634- (2021) |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Gun ownership, Pandemic, Social epidemiology, Medicine |
| الوصف: | In this paper, we document the social patterning of recent gun purchases to advance a contemporary social epidemiology of the pandemic arms race. We employ cross-sectional survey data from the 2020 Health, Ethnicity and Pandemic Study, which included a national sample of 2,709 community-dwelling adults living in the United States. We use binary logistic regression to model recent pandemic gun purchases as a function of age, sex, race/ethnicity, nativity status, region of residence, marital status, number of children, education, household income, pandemic job change, religious service attendance, pandemic religion change, and political party. Overall, 6% of the sample reported purchasing a new gun during the pandemic. Multivariate regression results suggest that pandemic gun purchasers tend to be male, younger, US-born, less educated, recently unemployed, experiencing changes in their religious beliefs, Republicans, and residents of southern states. To our knowledge, we are among the first to formally document a new population of pandemic gun owners that is characterized by youth, US-nativity, and religious volatility. Our analyses underscore the need for public health initiatives designed to enhance gun-related safety during pandemics, including, for example, addressing underlying motivations for recent gun purchases and improving access to training programs. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2211-3355 20204760 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335521003259; https://doaj.org/toc/2211-3355 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101634 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/3bbc7a7f3d644f35a2020476035a8343 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.3bbc7a7f3d644f35a2020476035a8343 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 22113355 20204760 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101634 |