Maddy Levine-Wolf

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on unintentional firearm deaths for children, unfortunately, between the ages of birth and 17. We've got two great guests with us today. We'll get to them in just a moment. I'd like to thank our great crew. Our research crew includes Maddy Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard.

Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on unintentional firearm deaths for children, unfortunately, between the ages of birth and 17. We've got two great guests with us today. We'll get to them in just a moment. I'd like to thank our great crew. Our research crew includes Maddy Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, and Sheridan Nygaard.

Sheridan also provides us with some great marketing skills, so thank you to all of you. Also, I'd like to thank Matthew Campbell, who's our production great assistant, who gets these shows out to you, the listening audience, in perfect form, along with some great music. So thank you to Matthew as well. And then, of course, there's

Sheridan also provides us with some great marketing skills, so thank you to all of you. Also, I'd like to thank Matthew Campbell, who's our production great assistant, who gets these shows out to you, the listening audience, in perfect form, along with some great music. So thank you to Matthew as well. And then, of course, there's

Clarence Jones, who's my colleague and co-host of the show, who is down in Memphis right now in the airport. So thanks for working it out so that you can still be on the show today, Clarence. It's always great to have your voice. Finally, I'd like to thank Human Partnership, who is our sponsor for these shows. It's a great community health organization.

Clarence Jones, who's my colleague and co-host of the show, who is down in Memphis right now in the airport. So thanks for working it out so that you can still be on the show today, Clarence. It's always great to have your voice. Finally, I'd like to thank Human Partnership, who is our sponsor for these shows. It's a great community health organization.

We recommend that you check them out at humanpartnership.org along with our website as well, which is healthchatterpodcast.com. So today, a sad topic, but yet I'm glad that we're talking about it because just merely talking about it and bringing it to you, the listening audience, will heighten our awareness about this topic of unintentional firearm deaths. We have two great guests.

We recommend that you check them out at humanpartnership.org along with our website as well, which is healthchatterpodcast.com. So today, a sad topic, but yet I'm glad that we're talking about it because just merely talking about it and bringing it to you, the listening audience, will heighten our awareness about this topic of unintentional firearm deaths. We have two great guests.

I'll introduce one and then I'll let Tom introduce another guest who's a colleague of his. I've known Tom Kaki, Dr. Tom Kaki, we figured for close to 40 years. Tom is an absolutely wonderful colleague, a true clinical expert in the area of cardiology, but also A wonderful colleague in the public health arena.

I'll introduce one and then I'll let Tom introduce another guest who's a colleague of his. I've known Tom Kaki, Dr. Tom Kaki, we figured for close to 40 years. Tom is an absolutely wonderful colleague, a true clinical expert in the area of cardiology, but also A wonderful colleague in the public health arena.

I can't really begin to tell you how many arenas Tom has been involved with in the public health arena. and has really been a strong voice connecting the public health side of all these different issues that we deal with, with the medical aspects. It's been a pleasure, truly a pleasure having him as a colleague, and we still connect to this day.

I can't really begin to tell you how many arenas Tom has been involved with in the public health arena. and has really been a strong voice connecting the public health side of all these different issues that we deal with, with the medical aspects. It's been a pleasure, truly a pleasure having him as a colleague, and we still connect to this day.

So Tom, thanks, many thanks for being on our show today. Tom, I'll let you introduce Anthony.

So Tom, thanks, many thanks for being on our show today. Tom, I'll let you introduce Anthony.

Anthony, it's great. Great to have you. And I'm giving you a virtual hug. So there you go. So thanks for being on our show today. So let's talk about this issue of unintentional Firearm deaths. What I thought I would do is, you know, our illustrious research gang has put together some statistics. And then I thought maybe Tom and Anthony, you can respond to this.

Anthony, it's great. Great to have you. And I'm giving you a virtual hug. So there you go. So thanks for being on our show today. So let's talk about this issue of unintentional Firearm deaths. What I thought I would do is, you know, our illustrious research gang has put together some statistics. And then I thought maybe Tom and Anthony, you can respond to this.

So it's a leading cause of death, unintentional injuries, leading cause of death among U.S. children and adolescents from, again, from birth to 17 years. And firearms are a leading injury cause.

So it's a leading cause of death, unintentional injuries, leading cause of death among U.S. children and adolescents from, again, from birth to 17 years. And firearms are a leading injury cause.

method which is the sad part of all of this in 2021 a couple years ago now approximately 30 million children live in homes with firearms 4.6 million in households reporting storing firearms loaded and unlocked in other words ready to to be fired um When we kind of break this down a little bit by age and sex and race, a majority of the deaths occurring among boys, about 83.1%.

method which is the sad part of all of this in 2021 a couple years ago now approximately 30 million children live in homes with firearms 4.6 million in households reporting storing firearms loaded and unlocked in other words ready to to be fired um When we kind of break this down a little bit by age and sex and race, a majority of the deaths occurring among boys, about 83.1%.