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Cumulative Exposure to Police-Involved Shootings and Mental Health Conditions in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
| Τίτλος: | Cumulative Exposure to Police-Involved Shootings and Mental Health Conditions in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Tanveer M; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, the University of Washington Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States. maryamta@uw.edu., Larson RP; Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN, 55104, United States., Robertson CE; Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, United States., Uggen C; Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, United States., Gomez NJS; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, the University of Washington Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, Seattle, WA, 98195, United States. |
| Πηγή: | Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine [J Urban Health] 2026 Jun; Vol. 103 (3), pp. 542-552. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Springer Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 9809909 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1468-2869 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 10993460 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Urban Health Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: 2006- : New York, NY : Springer Original Publication: Cary, NC : Oxford University Press for the New York Academy of Medicine, c1998- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Police*/statistics & numerical data , Mental Disorders*/epidemiology , Mass Shooting Events*/statistics & numerical data, Minnesota/epidemiology ; Humans ; Male ; Female ; Adult ; Middle Aged |
| Περίληψη: | Exposure to lethal or non-lethal police-involved shootings within communities has been shown to negatively impact individual mental health. Most literature has found this association through survey data that cannot speak to contemporaneous and cumulative impacts of police shootings. Given heterogeneity in both policing and community characteristics, immediate and granular mental health outcomes related to police-involved shootings must be explored. Our study examines how temporal community-level exposure to police shootings influences rates of mental health condition diagnosis at the ZCTA (ZIP code tabulation area) and month level using hospital discharge data from Minneapolis, Minnesota. For our exposures, we created a cumulative counter of police-involved shootings within ZCTAs and a lagged exposure indicator of police-involved shootings in the previous month. Using two-way fixed effect panel models, we find a nonlinear relationship between cumulative shooting exposure and rate of mental health diagnosis. As cumulative shootings increase, their effect on overall mental health diagnosis rate in Minneapolis increases until reaching a peak and then diminishes. This trend is similar across racial groups. This may be due to sensitization (increases in response to a certain point) and desensitization (diminishing responses after that point) as police shootings accumulate. In contrast, the effect of recent shooting exposures is null and weak, suggesting that it is the initial compounding, concentrated nature of police violence that exacts the greatest toll on community mental health. Findings highlight the need to investigate temporal exposure to police violence at granular levels to further understand its negative mental health impacts on community health. (© 2026. The Author(s), under the exclusive licence to New York Academy of Medicine.) |
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| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Cumulative exposure; Mental health; Minneapolis; Police shootings; Police violence |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260513 Date Completed: 20260629 Latest Revision: 20260726 |
| Update Code: | 20260726 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13315042 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11524-026-01075-1 |
| PMID: | 42129028 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1468-2869 |
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| DOI: | 10.1007/s11524-026-01075-1 |