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The COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Another Commercial Determinant of Health: The Global Firearm Industry

Adnan A. Hyder, Meghan Werbick, Lauren Scannelli and Nino Paichadze
Global Health: Science and Practice June 2021, 9(2):264-267; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00628
Adnan A. Hyder
aGeorge Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA.
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Meghan Werbick
aGeorge Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA.
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Lauren Scannelli
aGeorge Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health, Washington, DC, USA.
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Nino Paichadze
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Key Messages

  • Firearms have a large impact on the health of individuals and societies globally, with a disproportionate burden on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

  • The firearms industry uses strategies to promote the sale and use of their products that are detrimental to health and therefore should be viewed through a commercial determinants of health lens.

  • Coupled with the heightened risks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat to health posed by the firearms industry necessitates public health research, intervention, and collaboration.

  • Public health practitioners and policy makers should increase efforts to reduce the burden of firearm violence.

  • Public health researchers should use a commercial determinants of health lens when investigating health risks caused by firearms.

  • When discussing solutions to firearm violence, public health practitioners and policy makers should include perspectives from LMICs and vulnerable groups.

INTRODUCTION

As a global public health community, we are constantly confronting new attacks on our health and safety. Public health officials have been forced to reassess how to address, research, and fight threats to our health in the face of a changing environment. One of these persisting threats is firearm violence. Firearms contribute to more than 250,000 recorded deaths each year worldwide and 230 per 100,000 years of life lost; these numbers suffer from potentially serious underreporting.1 Unfortunately, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) suffer a disproportionate burden of firearm violence. Research has shown that 83% of all violence-related deaths occur in LMICs.2 Moreover, in the United States, 90% of the burden of firearm violence falls on civilian populations, as compared to the 10% concentrated in armed conflict situations, and the societal costs of firearm violence have reached more than $150 billion annually.1 As a private industry, gun producers and distributors play a major role in the growing availability of guns and, in turn, the severity …

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Global Health: Science and Practice: 9 (2)
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Adnan A. Hyder, Meghan Werbick, Lauren Scannelli, Nino Paichadze
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Adnan A. Hyder, Meghan Werbick, Lauren Scannelli, Nino Paichadze
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