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.
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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.
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 ...
Improving the Social Environment, and Lives, of Youth
September 29, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar Mark L. Hatzenbuehler, PhD, last week participated in a Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) panel on bullying and suicide among youth. His topic: how these issues affect lesbian, gay ...
The Social Environment and Suicide Attempts in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
April 18, 2011 | Journal Article
Characteristics of the social environment increase the risk of suicide attempts for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth.