Solving the Riddle of the U.S. ‘Suicide Belt’
June 12, 2013 | Story
One reason the American West has high suicide rates is its residential instability, RWJF scholar finds.
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Recommended Reading: Book on Suicide Among Military Veterans
June 6, 2013 | New Public Health Post
A new American Public Health Association (APHA) Press book, “Veteran Suicide: A Public Health Imperative,” addresses the critical and growing issue of suicide among military veterans.
State and Regional Suicide Rates
June 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Residential stability and population density, are examined in this article to help explain why suicide rates in the American West are higher than other regions of the United States.
Examining Suicide from a Population Health Perspective
June 13, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Here in the United States, in 2009, the last year for which data are available, some 37,000 Americans died by their own hands, making suicide the tenth leading cause of death in the nation and the fourth leading cause for adults ages 18 to 65. By an ...
Helping Mental Health Professionals Get Suicide-Prevention Training
April 9, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
By Jennifer Stuber, PhD, assistant professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. Stuber is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program (2004-2006). Her research interests include health ...
Recommended Listening: Veterans and Suicide
November 11, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A veteran commits suicide every 80 minutes, according to reported information from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Unreported deaths may push those numbers even higher. Foundations and government agencies are addressing the issue through screeni ...
Report: Young Men Increasingly Dying From Suicide, Violence, Accidents
April 1, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Over the last half century, the worldwide health community has made significant gains in decreasing the impact of communicable diseases. But those gains are being eroded in one demographic group by suicide, violence and accidents. Young men worldwid ...
Attitudes and Beliefs of Adolescents and Parents Regarding Adolescent Suicide
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey reported that roughly 14.5 percent of U.S. high school students considered suicide in 2006. This study used focus groups to uncover common beliefs about teen suicide
New Guidelines Developed to Promote Responsible Media Coverage of Suicides
March 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
The University of Pennsylvania conducted research on whether media coverage of suicides encourages more suicides, disseminated newly developed guidelines for responsible media coverage and evaluated the guidelines' effectiveness.
Did Televised Assisted-Suicide Improve Media Coverage of Euthanasia?
December 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed news coverage of a videotaped assisted suicide that was shown on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes" in November 1998.