Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted.
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Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 26645383.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915 and PMC identifier 4672939.
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Abstract
Nancy Krieger and colleagues argue that law-enforcement-related deaths in the United States should be treated as notifiable conditions, which would allow public health departments to report these data in real-time.
Medical subject headings
- Homicide
- Law Enforcement
- Police
- Public Health