Firearm violence is considered a public health crisis in the United States. Firearm violence spatially concentrates within neighborhoods and is associated with community factors; however, little is understood about the geographic differences in gunshot wound mortality and associated neighborhood social processes. Applying a public health approach through the Haddon’s Matrix, the results demonstrate systematic differences in social and physical features associated with gunshot mortality. These findings have important implications to improve neighborhood physical and social conditions, police transporting gunshot victims, and police-public health partnerships to improve data collection on nonfatal shootings and shots fired.

枪支暴力在美国被视为公共卫生危机。枪支暴力在空间上集中在社区内，并与社区因素有关；然而，人们对枪伤死亡率和相关社区社会进程的地理差异知之甚少。通过哈登矩阵应用公共卫生方法，结果证明了与枪击死亡率相关的社会和身体特征的系统差异。这些发现对于改善社区的物理和社会条件、警察运送枪击受害者以及警察与公共卫生合作以改善非致命枪击和枪击事件的数据收集具有重要意义。