What You Can Do, an initiative from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program to reduce firearm injury and death, has released an educational video to equip health care providers with clinical strategies for counseling patients about firearm safety.

Physicians and other health care providers can play an important role in preventing firearm injury and death, but too few routinely assess risk and talk with at-risk patients about their access to firearms and firearm safety. This educational video, Preventing Firearm Injury and Death: A Targeted Intervention, details steps for identifying risk and discussing risk and safety with patients when clinically appropriate. The video has three primary sections: an introduction to the epidemiology of firearm injury and death in the U.S., a detailed discussion on risk identification and counseling and an overview of firearm policies relevant to health care providers.

Additional resources are available on the What You Can Do website.