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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: What gun violence does to health
Description: Gun violence harms the health of victims and witnesses, but it also disrupts community social cohesion and behavioral norms. The people in communities that have experienced violence can suffer adverse health consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder.Exposure to gun violence and the disproportionate burden of that violence in certain communities is the topic of today's A Health Podyssey. Sarah James, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, joins Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil to discuss her research on adolescent exposure to deadly gun violence published in the June 2021 issue of Health Affairs. She and...