title: Novel Linkage of Individual and Geographic Data to Study Firearm Violence.
abstract: Firearm violence is the end result of a causative web of individual-level and geographic risk factors. Few, if any, studies of firearm violence have been able to simultaneously determine the population-based relative risks that individuals experience as a result of what they were doing at a specific point in time and where they were, geographically, at a specific point in time. This paper describes the linkage of individual and geographic data that was undertaken as part of a population-based case-control study of firearm violence in Philadelphia. New methods and applications of these linked data relevant to researchers and policymakers interested in firearm violence are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Charles C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Branas
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Culhane
authors.forename: Therese S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Richmond
authors.forename: Douglas J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wiebe