Industry Deep Dive | Healthcare Rising violent death Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention Public Health Cost of Gun Violence rates in the United States, driven by • Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programs: • Violence raises the demand for health services. increasing firearm there is a unique window of opportunity to engage About 2.3 million people in 2017 were treated in homicide and suicide, victims of gun violence in the immediate aftermath of emergency rooms for violent injuries. put attention on the role a traumatic injury. Programs located in trauma the healthcare sector centers and emergency departments can engage plays in prevention and patients while they are still in the hospital to reduce • Estimates of the cost of gun violence vary. Recent intervention. the change of retaliation or the recurrence of studies find that between 2006 and 2014, the violence. average annual cost of initial inpatient This section will focus hospitalizations for gunshot wounds was $734.6 on Healthcare Services • Medical Counseling on Access to Lethal million (based on hospital costs). and Facilities – Means:Physicians and other medical professionals hospitals, healthcare are crucial sources of information about the risk of • Others find that the estimated the average providers, congregant firearm access. By asking their patients about firearm emergency department and inpatient charges for living, etc. access and counseling them about firearm suicide the same period at $2.8 billion per year (based on risk, medical professionals can help prevent these charges). deaths. Sources: Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence; Northwell Health; American Psychological Association