Gun Violence as a Health Care Issue: A Select Bibliography

Editor's Note: CHA is a member of the Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence coalition, which is working through the interfaith community to enact common-sense gun control measures that would make our nation safer and reduce violence in our communities. Several CHA members and other Catholic organizations are also part of the coalition. The following resources provide helpful information about gun control for our readers.

Barry, Colleen L., McGinty, Emma E., Vernick, Jon S. and Daniel W. Webster. "After Newtown — Public Opinion on Gun Policy and Mental Illness." New England Journal of Medicine 368, no. 12 (March 21, 2013): 1077-81.

Carlson, Joe and Paul Barr. "Call to Action through Tragedy." Modern Healthcare 42, no. 52 (Dec. 24-31, 2012): 8-9.

Cassel C.K., Nelson E.A., Smith T.W., Schwab C. W., Barlow B., and N. E. Gary. "Internists' and Surgeons' Attitudes toward Guns and Firearm Injury Prevention. Internal Medicine 128, no. 3 (Feb. 1, 1998): 224-30.

Ciha, Clayton. "Can We Fix Mental Health Care?" Health Progress 94, no. 2 (March-April 2013):7-11.

Cotton P. "Gun-Associated Violence Increasingly Viewed as Public Health Challenge." Journal of the American Medical Association 267, no. 9 (March 4, 1992):1171-2, 1174.

Frattaroli S., Webster D.W., and G.J. Wintemute. "Implementing a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention: The Importance of Physician Engagement." Annals of Internal Medicine (Feb. 12, 2013). EPub.

Gostin, Lawrence O. and Katherine L. Record. "Dangerous People or Dangerous Weapons: Access to Firearms for Persons with Mental Illness." Journal of the American Medical Association 305, no. 20 (May 25, 2011): 2108-2109.

Hardy, Marjorie S. "Behavior-Oriented Approaches to Reducing Youth Gun Violence." The Future of Children 12 (2002): 101-117.

Hemenway, David. "Private Guns, Public Health." New England Journal of Medicine 351 (Sept. 2004): 1266-1267.

Levine, Robert S., Irwin Goldzweig, Barbara Kilborne, and Paul Juarez. "Firearms, Youth Homicide, and Public Health." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 23 (Feb. 2012): 7-19.

Mozaffarian, Dariush, Hemenway, David and David S. Ludwig. "Curbing Gun Violence: Lessons from Public Health Successes." The Journal of the American Medical Association 309, no. 6 (Feb. 13, 2013): 551-552.

Powell E.C., Sheehan K.M., and K.K. Christoffel. "Firearm Violence among Youth: Public Health Strategies for Prevention." Annals of Emergency Medicine 28, no. 2 (August 1996): 204-12.

Sen, Bisakha, and Anatachai Panjamapirom. "State Background Checks for Gun Purchase and Firearm Deaths: An Exploratory Study." Preventive Medicine 55, no. 4 (Oct. 2012): 346-350.

Shenassa, Edmond D, Daskalakis, Constantine and Stephen L. Buka. "Utility of Indices of Gun Availability in the Community." The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 60, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 44-49.

Stern, David, and Wayne Lindstrom. "After Newtown: Mental Illness and Violence." Health Affairs 32 (March 2013): 447-450.

Sumner, Steven, Layde, Peter M., and Clare E. Guse. "Firearm Death Rates and Association with Level of Firearm Purchase Background Check." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 35, no. 1 (July 2008): 1-6.

Valenti, Maria, Ormhaug, Christin M., Mtonga, Robert and John Loretz. "Armed Violence: A Health Problem, a Public Health Approach." Journal of Public Health Policy 28, no. 4 (Dec. 2007): 389-400.

Wallack L., Winett L., and A. Lee. "Successful Public Policy Change in California: Firearms and Youth Resources." Journal of Public Health Policy 26, no. 2 (July 2005): 206-26.

Winett L.B. "Constructing Violence as a Public Health Problem." Public Health Report 113, no. 6 (Nov.-Dec. 1968): 498-507.

Wintemute, Garen J. "Guns, Fear, the Constitution, and the Public's Health." The New England Journal of Medicine 358, no. 14 (April 3, 2008): 1421-1424.

Zigmond, Jessica. "'We're Not Doing Enough'; Advocates Want More from Gun Control Plan." Modern Healthcare 43, no. 3 (Jan. 21, 2013): 8.

(Prepared by CHA intern Jenna Herron.)

Immigrants' Access to Health Care: A Select Bibliography

Editor's Note: These materials provide timely information about immigration and can provide helpful background for CHA's April 18, 2013 webinar, "Our Immigrant Neighbors, Catholic Health Care and the New World of Health Care Reform."

Appel, Jacob M. "Medical Repatriation Does Not Justify Hospital Entanglement in Nonmedical Matters." American Journal of Bioethics 12, no. 9 (Sept. 2012): 9-11.

Barr, Paul. "Immigrant Health on Hold." Modern Healthcare 43, no. 5 (Feb. 4, 2013).

Berlinger, Nancy and Rajeev Raghavan. "The Ethics of Advocacy for Undocumented Patients." Hastings Center Report 43, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2013): 14-17.

Breen, James O. "Lost in Translation - ¿Cómo se dice, 'Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act'?" New England Journal of Medicine 366, no. 22 (May 31, 2012): 2045-2047.

Bresa, L. "Uninsured, Illegal, and in Need of Long-Term Care; the Repatriation of Undocumented Immigrants by U.S. Hospitals." Seton Hall Law Review 40, no. 4 (2010):1663-96.

Gusmano, Michael K. "Undocumented Immigrants in the United States: Use of Health Care," Undocumented Patients web site (Garrison, NY: The Hastings Center) www.undocumentedpatients.org/issuebrief/health-care-use/ accessed February 15, 2013.

Kuczewski, M. "Who Is My Neighbor? A Communitarian Analysis of Access to Health Care for Immigrants." Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 32, no. 5 (Oct. 2011):327-36.

Mclaughlin, Robert H. "Criteria for Medical Repatriation and the Context of Inadequate Access to Care." American Journal of Bioethics 12, no. 9 (Sept. 2012):14-16. 

Nulia, R. "Home: Palliation for Dying Undocumented Immigrants." New England Journal of Medicine 366, no. 22 (May 31, 2012): 2047-2048.

Oakley, Nicholas. "Medial Repatriation: The Need for a Bigger Picture." American Journal of Bioethics 12, no. 9 (Sept. 2012): 8-9.

Orentlicher, D. "Rights to Healthcare in the United States: Inherently Unstable." American Journal of Law and Medicine 38, nos. 2-3 (2012):326-47.

Ortega, A. " ... And Health Care for All: Immigrants in the Shadow of the Promise of Universal Health Care." American Journal of Law and Medicine 35, no. 1 (2009):185-204.

Pear, Robert. "Limits Placed on Immigrants in Health Law." New York Times, Sept. 18, 2012.

Raghavan, R. and R. Nulia. "Survivors: Dialysis, Immigration and U.S. Law." New England Journal of Medicine 364, no. 23 (June 9, 2011): 2183-85.

Undocumented Patients by Hastings Center Report - website www.undocumentedpatients.org

Zuber, J. "Healthcare for the Undocumented: Solving a Public Health Crisis in the U.S." Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 28, no. 2 (Spring 2012):350-80.

(Prepared by CHA intern Lori Ashmore-Ruppel.)

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