Aiming for Prevention: international medical conference on small arms, gun violence and injury.
IPPNW and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Finland organized an international conference on small arms and firearms injury in Helsinki from 28-30 September 2001, emphasizing the preventive medicine aspects of the issues discussed. This article describes the background to this conference and reports the work of IPPNW in following it up.
Rawson
Brian
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IPPNW, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. brawson@ippnw.org
D005389:Firearms; D006801:Humans; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000517:prevention & control