Gunshot Injuries: Youth and Bregg Institute

gunshot injuries: Natasha Saunders, lead author of the study, called the number of gunshot injuries suffered by Ontario children and youth staggering, according to Toronto Star. Peter Bregg / Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Mon., March 27, 2017 A child or youth is shot in Ontario almost every day, according to a groundbreaking study that attempted to identify at-risk groups for firearm injuries. Tony Bock / Tony Bock/Toronto Star Dr. In the study, based on government health and immigration databases and published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, a team of Toronto researchers found Canadian-born youth, particularly males, have higher rates of unintentional firearm injuries compared with immigrant youth. Canadian-born males suffer 12.4 such injuries per 100,000 people 72 per cent higher than the 7.2 among immigrant males. The study found there were an average of 355 firearm injuries a year between 2008 and 2012, when a total of almost 1,800 firearm injuries were reported among children and youth in Ontario. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.