Human Growth and Development / Unit 11 HGD 1523 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Injury and Death in Early Adulthood
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The idea
Despite good health, young adults face elevated deaths from unintentional injury, the leading cause, and from overdose, suicide and homicide.
In practice
More than forty-eight thousand US firearm deaths in twenty twenty-two, more than half of them suicides.
Where people slip
Early exposure to gun violence predicts later involvement in it, in longitudinal research.
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