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. 2021 Jan/Feb;136(1):6-9.
doi: 10.1177/0033354920965263. Epub 2020 Oct 27.

A Public Health Approach to Tackling the Role of Culture in Shaping the Gun Violence Epidemic in the United States

Salma M Abdalla  1 , Katherine M Keyes  2 , Sandro Galea  3
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A Public Health Approach to Tackling the Role of Culture in Shaping the Gun Violence Epidemic in the United States

Salma M Abdalla et al. Public Health Rep. 2021 Jan/Feb.
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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