Word: hemenway
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...have a problem,” said Professor of Health Policy David Hemenway, the study’s principle author. “We’re not just 20 percent worse or 40 percent worse. You’re five times more likely to die from a gun if you are a woman living in the United States...
...Hemenway said the study was meant to provide data that previous studies on homicides—which typically do not consider the gender of victims—failed to provide. Since men are much more likely to be murdered than women, statistics that consider all homicides masks specific data pertaining to women, he said...
While the study does not draw any conclusions as to why firearm homicides are so much higher in the United States, according to Hemenway the data does suggest that the country’s comparatively lax gun laws could be a cause...
...previous study by Matthew Miller, Deborah Azrael and Hemenway, published in the March edition of the Journal of Urban Health, noted that women are more likely to be murdered by a gun in regions of the U.S. where firearms are more prevalent...
...other than homicide, the United States’ crime rate is on par with most other nations, Hemenway said...