Stephen P Teret
Biographic Data
| ID | 6063306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen P Teret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen P |
| FAMILY NAME | Teret |
| SIGNATURE | TERET S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Perspectives on learning to cook and public support for cooking education policies in the United States: A mixed methods study
US Public Opinion on Carrying Firearms in Public Places
Objectives. To estimate US public opinion, overall and by gun ownership status, about the public places where legal gun owners should be allowed to carry firearms. Methods. We fielded an online survey among 3949 adults, including an oversample of gun owners and veterans, in April 2015. We used cross-tabulations with survey weights to generate nationally representative estimates. Results. Fewer than 1 in 3 US adults supported gun carrying in any o…
The US Public’s Preference for Safer Guns
Changing the Constitutional Landscape for Firearms: The US Supreme Court's Recent Second Amendment Decisions
In 2 recent cases—with important implications for public health practitioners, courts, and researchers—the US Supreme Court changed the landscape for judging the constitutionality of firearm laws under the Constitution's Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v Heller (2008), the court determined for the first time that the Second Amendment grants individuals a personal right to possess handguns in their home. In McDonald v City of Chicago (20…
The Food Industry and Self-Regulation: Standards to Promote Success and to Avoid Public Health Failures
Threatened by possible government regulation and critical public opinion, industries often undertake self-regulatory actions, issue statements of concern for public welfare, and assert that self-regulation is sufficient to protect the public. The food industry has made highly visible pledges to curtail children's food marketing, sell fewer unhealthy products in schools, and label foods in responsible ways. Ceding regulation to industry carries op…
The Baltimore Youth Ammunition Initiative: A Model Application of Local Public Health Authority in Preventing Gun Violence
In 2002, the Baltimore City Health Department, in collaboration with the Baltimore Police Department and the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, launched the Youth Ammunition Initiative. The initiative addressed Baltimore’s problem of youth gun violence by targeting illegal firearm ammunition sales to the city’s young people. The initiative included undercover “sting” investigations of local businesses and issuance of health departm…
Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: The Role of School-Level Requirements, Policies, and Procedures
Objectives. Our goal was to determine whether school-level variability in implementation of immunization requirements is associated with the likelihood of a child having received an exemption to school immunization requirements. Methods. We surveyed 1000 school immunization personnel in Colorado, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Washington. We explored associations between school implementation of immunization requirements and the likelihood of a chi…
Public Health and the Politics of School Immunization Requirements
Compulsory vaccination has contributed to the enormous success of US immunization programs. Movements to introduce broad “philosophical/personal beliefs” exemptions administered without adequate public health oversight threaten this success. Health professionals and child welfare advocates must address these developments in order to maintain the effectiveness of the nation’s mandatory school vaccination programs. We review recent events regarding…
Making Vehicles Safer
In his editorial “A New Traffic Safety Vision for the United States,”1 Evans argues that litigation has harmed the US motor vehicle safety effort and that interventions focused on changing the behavior of drivers, rather than the safe design of vehicles, are “overwhelmingly” more important. Although one might not realize it from Evans’s editorial, the reduction in the risk of fatal motor vehicle crash is one of the major success stories of public…
Product-Oriented Approaches to Reducing Youth Gun Violence
Injury prevention experts have suggested that gun manufacturers could reduce youth violence by changing the design of guns. Product safety features could make guns more difficult for children to fire unintentionally and more difficult to use if stolen or obtained illegally. This article gives a brief history of efforts to make safer, smarter guns and assesses the potential of the product safety approach for reducing youth gun violence. Among the …
Vernick and Teret Respond
Vernick and Teret Respond Jon S. Vernick, and Stephen P. Teret CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.11.1855 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Firearms and health: The right to be armed with accurate information about the Second Amendment
An organized campaign by groups such as the National Rifle Association has sought to convince policymakers and others that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution grants an unfettered right to individuals to possess any firearm, free from federal or state regulation. Although advocates may debate the meaning that should be given to the Second Amendment, under the American legal system the meaning of any particular constitutional provision is …
Epidemiology and the law: Courts and confidence intervals
Beginning with the swine flu litigation of the early 1980s, epidemiological evidence has played an increasingly prominent role in helping the nation's courts deal with alleged causal connections between plaintiffs' diseases or other harm and exposure to specific noxious agents (such as asbestos, toxic waste, radiation, and pharmaceuticals). Judicial reliance on epidemiology has high-lighted the contrast between the nature of scientific proof and …
Death resulting from motor vehicle immersions: The nature of the injuries, personal and environmental contributing factors, and potential interventions
We present an epidemiologic characterization of deaths from motor vehicle immersions, based on 77 deaths in 63 motor vehicle immersions in Sacramento County, CA, during 1974-85. All persons were autopsied; all but one of the deaths were due to drowning. Average annual mortality rates per million person years were 12 for males, four for females, 30 for Hispanics, six for White non-Hispanics, Blacks and Asians. Seventy-one percent of drivers and 60…
The choice of weapons in firearm suicides
We report on the firearms used in 235 suicides in Sacramento County, California, during 1983-85. Handguns were used in 69 per cent of firearm suicides--65 per cent for males, 88 per cent for females--and in all such deaths among women ages 35 and older. We tested the hypothesis that the choice of firearms by persons committing suicide at home would passively reflect the reported prevalence of firearms by type in households in the region. Handguns…
Response from Dr. Wintemute, et al
Response from Dr. Wintemute, et al. Garen J. Wintemute, Stephen P. Teret, Jess F. Kraus, and Mona Wright CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.1.98 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Drowning in childhood and adolescence: A population-based study
We present the results of a residence-based study of drownings among Sacramento County, California children and adolescents ages 0-19 years for the years 1974-84. Children ages 1-3 had the highest drowning rates. The majority of drownings in this group, and one-third of all drownings in the study, occurred in residential swimming pools. Males ages 15-19 had a high drowning rate as well; at least 38 per cent of drownings in that age group were alc…
Child restraint laws: An analysis of gaps in coverage
The limiting effects of exemptions to the coverage of child restraint laws were estimated by determining the extent to which the laws would have applied to child motor vehicle occupants, ages 0-5 years, killed before the laws were passed (1976-80). The 50 state laws would have exempted about 39 per cent of child motor vehicle occupants less than 6 years of age killed in the years immediately preceding enactment of the laws. Of those children kill…
Litigating for the public's health
Litigating for the public's health. S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.76.8.1027 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Freedom and protection: A balancing of interests
Freedom and protection: a balancing of interests. S P Baker, and S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.3.295 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The Food Industry and Self-Regulation: Standards to Promote Success and to Avoid Public Health Failures
Threatened by possible government regulation and critical public opinion, industries often undertake self-regulatory actions, issue statements of concern for public welfare, and assert that self-regulation is sufficient to protect the public. The food industry has made highly visible pledges to curtail children's food marketing, sell fewer unhealthy products in schools, and label foods in responsible ways. Ceding regulation to industry carries op…
Perspectives on learning to cook and public support for cooking education policies in the United States: A mixed methods study
US Public Opinion on Carrying Firearms in Public Places
Objectives. To estimate US public opinion, overall and by gun ownership status, about the public places where legal gun owners should be allowed to carry firearms. Methods. We fielded an online survey among 3949 adults, including an oversample of gun owners and veterans, in April 2015. We used cross-tabulations with survey weights to generate nationally representative estimates. Results. Fewer than 1 in 3 US adults supported gun carrying in any o…
Child restraint laws: An analysis of gaps in coverage
The limiting effects of exemptions to the coverage of child restraint laws were estimated by determining the extent to which the laws would have applied to child motor vehicle occupants, ages 0-5 years, killed before the laws were passed (1976-80). The 50 state laws would have exempted about 39 per cent of child motor vehicle occupants less than 6 years of age killed in the years immediately preceding enactment of the laws. Of those children kill…
Litigating for the public's health
Litigating for the public's health. S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.76.8.1027 Published Online: October 07, 2011
The choice of weapons in firearm suicides
We report on the firearms used in 235 suicides in Sacramento County, California, during 1983-85. Handguns were used in 69 per cent of firearm suicides--65 per cent for males, 88 per cent for females--and in all such deaths among women ages 35 and older. We tested the hypothesis that the choice of firearms by persons committing suicide at home would passively reflect the reported prevalence of firearms by type in households in the region. Handguns…
Drowning in childhood and adolescence: A population-based study
We present the results of a residence-based study of drownings among Sacramento County, California children and adolescents ages 0-19 years for the years 1974-84. Children ages 1-3 had the highest drowning rates. The majority of drownings in this group, and one-third of all drownings in the study, occurred in residential swimming pools. Males ages 15-19 had a high drowning rate as well; at least 38 per cent of drownings in that age group were alc…
Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: The Role of School-Level Requirements, Policies, and Procedures
Objectives. Our goal was to determine whether school-level variability in implementation of immunization requirements is associated with the likelihood of a child having received an exemption to school immunization requirements. Methods. We surveyed 1000 school immunization personnel in Colorado, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Washington. We explored associations between school implementation of immunization requirements and the likelihood of a chi…
Epidemiology and the law: Courts and confidence intervals
Beginning with the swine flu litigation of the early 1980s, epidemiological evidence has played an increasingly prominent role in helping the nation's courts deal with alleged causal connections between plaintiffs' diseases or other harm and exposure to specific noxious agents (such as asbestos, toxic waste, radiation, and pharmaceuticals). Judicial reliance on epidemiology has high-lighted the contrast between the nature of scientific proof and …
Changing the Constitutional Landscape for Firearms: The US Supreme Court's Recent Second Amendment Decisions
In 2 recent cases—with important implications for public health practitioners, courts, and researchers—the US Supreme Court changed the landscape for judging the constitutionality of firearm laws under the Constitution's Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v Heller (2008), the court determined for the first time that the Second Amendment grants individuals a personal right to possess handguns in their home. In McDonald v City of Chicago (20…
Firearms and health: The right to be armed with accurate information about the Second Amendment
An organized campaign by groups such as the National Rifle Association has sought to convince policymakers and others that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution grants an unfettered right to individuals to possess any firearm, free from federal or state regulation. Although advocates may debate the meaning that should be given to the Second Amendment, under the American legal system the meaning of any particular constitutional provision is …
Freedom and protection: A balancing of interests
Freedom and protection: a balancing of interests. S P Baker, and S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.3.295 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Public Health and the Politics of School Immunization Requirements
Compulsory vaccination has contributed to the enormous success of US immunization programs. Movements to introduce broad “philosophical/personal beliefs” exemptions administered without adequate public health oversight threaten this success. Health professionals and child welfare advocates must address these developments in order to maintain the effectiveness of the nation’s mandatory school vaccination programs. We review recent events regarding…
The US Public’s Preference for Safer Guns
Product-Oriented Approaches to Reducing Youth Gun Violence
Injury prevention experts have suggested that gun manufacturers could reduce youth violence by changing the design of guns. Product safety features could make guns more difficult for children to fire unintentionally and more difficult to use if stolen or obtained illegally. This article gives a brief history of efforts to make safer, smarter guns and assesses the potential of the product safety approach for reducing youth gun violence. Among the …
Freedom and protection: A balancing of interests
Freedom and protection: a balancing of interests. S P Baker, and S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.71.3.295 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Child restraint laws: An analysis of gaps in coverage
The limiting effects of exemptions to the coverage of child restraint laws were estimated by determining the extent to which the laws would have applied to child motor vehicle occupants, ages 0-5 years, killed before the laws were passed (1976-80). The 50 state laws would have exempted about 39 per cent of child motor vehicle occupants less than 6 years of age killed in the years immediately preceding enactment of the laws. Of those children kill…
Litigating for the public's health
Litigating for the public's health. S P TeretCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.76.8.1027 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Drowning in childhood and adolescence: A population-based study
We present the results of a residence-based study of drownings among Sacramento County, California children and adolescents ages 0-19 years for the years 1974-84. Children ages 1-3 had the highest drowning rates. The majority of drownings in this group, and one-third of all drownings in the study, occurred in residential swimming pools. Males ages 15-19 had a high drowning rate as well; at least 38 per cent of drownings in that age group were alc…
The choice of weapons in firearm suicides
We report on the firearms used in 235 suicides in Sacramento County, California, during 1983-85. Handguns were used in 69 per cent of firearm suicides--65 per cent for males, 88 per cent for females--and in all such deaths among women ages 35 and older. We tested the hypothesis that the choice of firearms by persons committing suicide at home would passively reflect the reported prevalence of firearms by type in households in the region. Handguns…
Response from Dr. Wintemute, et al
Response from Dr. Wintemute, et al. Garen J. Wintemute, Stephen P. Teret, Jess F. Kraus, and Mona Wright CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.1.98 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Death resulting from motor vehicle immersions: The nature of the injuries, personal and environmental contributing factors, and potential interventions
We present an epidemiologic characterization of deaths from motor vehicle immersions, based on 77 deaths in 63 motor vehicle immersions in Sacramento County, CA, during 1974-85. All persons were autopsied; all but one of the deaths were due to drowning. Average annual mortality rates per million person years were 12 for males, four for females, 30 for Hispanics, six for White non-Hispanics, Blacks and Asians. Seventy-one percent of drivers and 60…
Epidemiology and the law: Courts and confidence intervals
Beginning with the swine flu litigation of the early 1980s, epidemiological evidence has played an increasingly prominent role in helping the nation's courts deal with alleged causal connections between plaintiffs' diseases or other harm and exposure to specific noxious agents (such as asbestos, toxic waste, radiation, and pharmaceuticals). Judicial reliance on epidemiology has high-lighted the contrast between the nature of scientific proof and …
Firearms and health: The right to be armed with accurate information about the Second Amendment
An organized campaign by groups such as the National Rifle Association has sought to convince policymakers and others that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution grants an unfettered right to individuals to possess any firearm, free from federal or state regulation. Although advocates may debate the meaning that should be given to the Second Amendment, under the American legal system the meaning of any particular constitutional provision is …
Vernick and Teret Respond
Vernick and Teret Respond Jon S. Vernick, and Stephen P. Teret CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.11.1855 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Product-Oriented Approaches to Reducing Youth Gun Violence
Injury prevention experts have suggested that gun manufacturers could reduce youth violence by changing the design of guns. Product safety features could make guns more difficult for children to fire unintentionally and more difficult to use if stolen or obtained illegally. This article gives a brief history of efforts to make safer, smarter guns and assesses the potential of the product safety approach for reducing youth gun violence. Among the …
Making Vehicles Safer
In his editorial “A New Traffic Safety Vision for the United States,”1 Evans argues that litigation has harmed the US motor vehicle safety effort and that interventions focused on changing the behavior of drivers, rather than the safe design of vehicles, are “overwhelmingly” more important. Although one might not realize it from Evans’s editorial, the reduction in the risk of fatal motor vehicle crash is one of the major success stories of public…
The Baltimore Youth Ammunition Initiative: A Model Application of Local Public Health Authority in Preventing Gun Violence
In 2002, the Baltimore City Health Department, in collaboration with the Baltimore Police Department and the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, launched the Youth Ammunition Initiative. The initiative addressed Baltimore’s problem of youth gun violence by targeting illegal firearm ammunition sales to the city’s young people. The initiative included undercover “sting” investigations of local businesses and issuance of health departm…
Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: The Role of School-Level Requirements, Policies, and Procedures
Objectives. Our goal was to determine whether school-level variability in implementation of immunization requirements is associated with the likelihood of a child having received an exemption to school immunization requirements. Methods. We surveyed 1000 school immunization personnel in Colorado, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Washington. We explored associations between school implementation of immunization requirements and the likelihood of a chi…
Public Health and the Politics of School Immunization Requirements
Compulsory vaccination has contributed to the enormous success of US immunization programs. Movements to introduce broad “philosophical/personal beliefs” exemptions administered without adequate public health oversight threaten this success. Health professionals and child welfare advocates must address these developments in order to maintain the effectiveness of the nation’s mandatory school vaccination programs. We review recent events regarding…
The Food Industry and Self-Regulation: Standards to Promote Success and to Avoid Public Health Failures
Threatened by possible government regulation and critical public opinion, industries often undertake self-regulatory actions, issue statements of concern for public welfare, and assert that self-regulation is sufficient to protect the public. The food industry has made highly visible pledges to curtail children's food marketing, sell fewer unhealthy products in schools, and label foods in responsible ways. Ceding regulation to industry carries op…
Changing the Constitutional Landscape for Firearms: The US Supreme Court's Recent Second Amendment Decisions
In 2 recent cases—with important implications for public health practitioners, courts, and researchers—the US Supreme Court changed the landscape for judging the constitutionality of firearm laws under the Constitution's Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v Heller (2008), the court determined for the first time that the Second Amendment grants individuals a personal right to possess handguns in their home. In McDonald v City of Chicago (20…
The US Public’s Preference for Safer Guns
Perspectives on learning to cook and public support for cooking education policies in the United States: A mixed methods study
US Public Opinion on Carrying Firearms in Public Places
Objectives. To estimate US public opinion, overall and by gun ownership status, about the public places where legal gun owners should be allowed to carry firearms. Methods. We fielded an online survey among 3949 adults, including an oversample of gun owners and veterans, in April 2015. We used cross-tabulations with survey weights to generate nationally representative estimates. Results. Fewer than 1 in 3 US adults supported gun carrying in any o…
Medicine (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Environmental health (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (6 works) · Occupational safety and health (6 works) · Poison control (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Suicide prevention (5 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (4 works)