Year: 2013
Resolution Number: 78
Action Taken: Approved as Amended
Status:
Author(s): Cynthia Hegg Krueger, MD
Sponsor: Cynthia Hegg Krueger, MD
On behalf of: Washtenaw County Delegation
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS aggressively support federal and state legislation ensuring that physicians can fulfill their role in preventing firearm injuries by health screening, patient counseling, and referral to mental health services for those with behavioral/emotional medical conditions; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS aggressively support federal and state evidence-based research on firearm injury and the use of state/national firearms injury databases (National Violent Death Reporting System) to inform state/federal health policy4. RESOLVED: That our AMA aggressively support federal and state evidence-based research on firearm injury and the use of state/national firearms injury databases (National Violent Death Reporting System) to inform state/federal health policy4.
RESOLVED: That MSMS aggressively support federal and state legislation ensuring that physicians can fulfill their role in preventing firearm injuries by health screening, patient counseling, and referral to mental health services for those with behavioral/emotional medical conditions; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS aggressively support federal and state evidence-based research on firearm injury and the use of state/national firearms injury databases (National Violent Death Reporting System) to inform state/federal health policy4. RESOLVED: That our AMA aggressively support federal and state evidence-based research on firearm injury and the use of state/national firearms injury databases (National Violent Death Reporting System) to inform state/federal health policy4.
Fiscal Note: NULL
Resolution: View PDF for Reduction of Gun Violence