MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
MISSING PIECES - Inter-Parliamentary Union
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<strong>MISSING</strong> <strong>PIECES</strong><br />
nitude and extent of the problems faced by each country based on a wider<br />
range of indicators.<br />
HUMAN SECURITY INDICATORS FOR SMALL ARMS AVAILABILITY AND MISUSE<br />
Direct impact<br />
Other effects<br />
Public health impacts<br />
• Hospital expenditures on firearm<br />
injury-related treatment<br />
• Percentage of hospital budget allocated<br />
for health care and disease<br />
prevention<br />
• Death rate related to firearms (homicide,<br />
suicide, and unintended shootings)<br />
• Health care or health insurance costs<br />
due to increased firearm injury or<br />
death rates<br />
• Psychological and psychosocial trauma<br />
related to armed violence<br />
Subjective experiences of security<br />
• Relative perceptions of security and<br />
danger<br />
• Self-restriction of movement: no-go<br />
public areas<br />
• Levels of fear associated with particular<br />
armed actors<br />
• Lack of confidence in ability of the<br />
security sector<br />
• Perceived need for gun ownership<br />
for self-protection<br />
• Perceptions of arms availability in<br />
the community<br />
• Actual numbers of guns in the<br />
community<br />
Violence against children<br />
• Rates of directly war-related death<br />
and injury of children disaggregated<br />
by gender<br />
• Rates of school attendance<br />
• Rates of unintentional firearm death<br />
and injury of children disaggregated<br />
by gender<br />
• Incidence of psychosocial and psychological<br />
trauma associated with gun<br />
violence<br />
• Presence of children in fighting<br />
forces disaggregated by gender<br />
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