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Fahra Rajabali1*
Kate Turcotte1
Alex Zheng1Nick Pauls2Tony Nguyen2Evelyn Kalman2Vedrana Covic2
Ian Pike1,3- 1BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 2Public Safety and Police Services Unit, Policing and Security Branch, Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Victoria, BC, Canada
- 3Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A corrigendum on
The cost of firearm violent crime in British Columbia, Canada
by Rajabali, F., Turcotte, K., Zheng, A., Pauls, N., Nguyen, T., Kalman, E., Covic, V and Pike, I. (2023) Front. Public Health 10:938091.doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.938091
In the published article, an error was made in identifying the relevant countries.
A correction has been made to the Introduction, paragraph 1. This sentence previously stated:
“Canada ranks 9 out of 36 countries”
This should have been written as:
“Canada ranks 9 out of 36 peer Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries”
In the published article, an error was made in providing the average human costs per year.
A correction has been made to Results, paragraph 2. This sentence previously stated:
“human costs averaged $183,448,841 per year,”
This should have been written as:
“human costs averaged $188,416,841 per year,”
The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.
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Keywords: firearm injury, costs, criminal justice system costs, health care costs, violent crime
Citation: Rajabali F, Turcotte K, Zheng A, Pauls N, Nguyen T, Kalman E, Covic V and Pike I (2023) Corrigendum: The cost of firearm violent crime in British Columbia, Canada. Front. Public Health 11:1180968. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1180968
Received: 06 March 2023; Accepted: 15 May 2023;
Published: 30 May 2023.
Approved by:
Stefano Orlando, University of Rome Tor Vergata, ItalyCopyright © 2023 Rajabali, Turcotte, Zheng, Pauls, Nguyen, Kalman, Covic and Pike. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Fahra Rajabali, ZnJhamFiYWxpQGJjY2hyLmNh