| Autor: |
Martínez-Alés G; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; email: gm2794@cumc.columbia.edu, kmk2104@columbia.edu.; Department of Psychiatry, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain., Jiang T; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: tjiang1@bu.edu., Keyes KM; Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; email: gm2794@cumc.columbia.edu, kmk2104@columbia.edu., Gradus JL; Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: tjiang1@bu.edu.; Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; email: jgradus@bu.edu. |
| Abstrakt: |
Suicide is a major public health concern in the United States. Between 2000 and 2018, US suicide rates increased by 35%, contributing to the stagnation and subsequent decrease in US life expectancy. During 2019, suicide declined modestly, mostly owing to slight reductions in suicides among Whites. Suicide rates, however, continued to increase or remained stable among all other racial/ethnic groups, and little is known about recent suicide trends among other vulnerable groups. This article ( a ) summarizes US suicide mortality trends over the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, ( b ) reviews potential group-level causes of increased suicide risk among subpopulations characterized by markers of vulnerability to suicide, and ( c ) advocates for combining recent advances in population-based suicide prevention with a socially conscious perspective that captures the social, economic, and political contexts in which suicide risk unfolds over the life course of vulnerable individuals. |
