Children in America are more likely to die from gunfire than Covid-19, states the Children’s Defense Fund.

As a health care professional, you have a vested interest in the well-being of your patients. To assure that your patients remain healthy and safe, you not only have to treat them but you have to educate them.

Gun violence continues to be a growing epidemic in America, consuming the lives of more than 115,000 Americans every year, according to CDC numbers over a five year period.

While there is no pill that can keep your patients safe from this epidemic, there is a way for you to help raise the odds in their favor – prevent gun violence through education.

Give Information to your patients. Check out the following websites for materials created specifically for health care professionals who care:

• American Academy of Family Physicians:   Preventing Violence in Health Care Toolkit
• American Psychological Association: Gun Violence
• Brady Center