The Recent Rise of Suicide Mortality in the United States
Autor: | Gonzalo Martínez-Alés, Jaimie L. Gradus, Tammy Jiang, Katherine M. Keyes |
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Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
education.field_of_study
medicine.medical_specialty History Public health Population Racial Groups Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Ethnic group Vulnerability General Medicine Violence Suicide prevention United States Politics Suicide Life Expectancy medicine Life expectancy Ethnicity Life course approach Humans education Demography |
Zdroj: | Annual review of public health. 43 |
ISSN: | 1545-2093 |
Popis: | 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. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Public Health, Volume 43 is April 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates. |
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