Abstract
<h3>Key Messages</h3> Firearms have a large impact on the health of individuals and societies globally, with a disproportionate burden on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The firearms industry uses strategies to promote the sale and use of their products that are detrimental to health and therefore should be viewed through a commercial determinants of health lens. Coupled with the heightened risks during the COVID-19 pandemic, the threat to health posed by the firearms industry necessitates public health research, intervention, and collaboration. Public health practitioners and policy makers should increase efforts to reduce the burden of firearm violence. Public health researchers should use a commercial determinants of health lens when investigating health risks caused by firearms. When discussing solutions to firearm violence, public health practitioners and policy makers should include perspectives from LMICs and vulnerable groups.
Highlights
Global Health: Science and Practice 2021 | Volume 9 | Number 2 shown that 83% of all violence-related deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).[2]
In the United States, 90% of the burden of firearm violence falls on civilian populations, as compared to the 10% concentrated in armed conflict situations, and the societal costs of firearm violence have reached more than $150 billion annually.[1]
Commercial determinants of health are defined as[3]: strategies and approaches used by the private sector to promote products and choices that are detrimental to health
Summary
Global Health: Science and Practice 2021 | Volume 9 | Number 2 shown that 83% of all violence-related deaths occur in LMICs.[2]. Advocacy groups, such as the National Rifle Association (NRA), have pushed for the inclusion of the “gun show loophole” which exempts private sellers from requiring background checks for purchasers.[9] The NRA is at the forefront of protecting the firearm industry and one of the most successful advocacy groups While they claim to promote hunter safety and offer training to members of law enforcement, for the past 30 years a vast majority of their $250 million budget was reportedly used toward limiting gun legislation regardless of the societal impact.[10] In the past 20 years, of all legislation introduced federally in the United States, only 1 passed into law despite support for gun regulation from the majority of Americans. Initial List of Recommendations for Addressing Firearms as a Commercial Determinant of Health
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