title: Aiming for Prevention: international medical conference on small arms, gun violence and injury.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: IPPNW, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. brawson@ippnw.org
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rawson
mesh_terms: D005389:Firearms; D006801:Humans; D011315:Preventive Medicine; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000517:prevention & control