ReviewBMC public health2022
Achieving health equity in US suicides: a narrative review and commentary.
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- Cause-specific mortality among U.S. service members and veterans (2001-2018): comparison to the U.S. general population.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Community-based Suicide Interventions in Rural United States: A Scoping Review.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Enhancing Equity on Crisis Lines: Understanding the Background, Practices and Learning Needs of Responders in Canada.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Surveillance for Violent Deaths - National Violent Death Reporting System, 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2022.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2025Article
- Association of substance use with suicide mortality: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2025Review
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- Investigating Suicide Risk Factors Among Appalachian West Virginian Adults.Journal of Appalachian health · 2025Article
- Factors associated with multiple-death suicides among rural US decedents.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- Are veterans willing to assist with firearm safety for suicide prevention?Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Surveillance for Violent Deaths - National Violent Death Reporting System, 48 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2021.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2024Article
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- Recent anti-infective exposure as a risk factor for first episode of suicidal thoughts and/or behaviors in pediatric patients.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Examining the unique impacts of Potentially Traumatic Experiences (PTE) and discrimination events on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Multiracial/ethnic adults in the United States.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Mental health and Multiracial/ethnic adults in the United States: a mixed methods participatory action investigation.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Understanding Suicide over the Life Course Using Data Science Tools within a Triangulation Framework.Journal of psychiatry and brain science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Suicide rates in the United States (US) reached a peak in 2018 and declined in 2019 and 2020, with substantial and often growing disparities by age, sex, race/ethnicity, geography, veteran status, sexual minority status, socioeconomic status, and method employed (means disparity). In this narrative review and commentary, we highlight these many disparities in US suicide deaths, then examine the possible causes and potential solutions, with the overarching goal of reducing suicide death disparities to achieve health equity.The data implicate untreated, undertreated, or unidentified depression or other mental illness, and access to firearms, as two modifiable risk factors for suicide across all groups. The data also reveal firearm suicides increasing sharply and linearly with increasing county rurality, while suicide rates by falls (e.g., from tall structures) decrease linearly by increasing rurality, and suicide rates by other means remain fairly constant regardless of relative county urbanization. In addition, for all geographies, gun suicides are significantly higher in males than females, and highest in ages 51-85 + years old for both sexes. Of all US suicides from 1999-2019, 55% of male suicides and 29% of female suicides were by gun in metropolitan (metro) areas, versus 65% (Male) and 42% (Female) suicides by gun in non-metro areas. Guns accounted for 89% of suicides in non-metro males aged 71-85 + years old. Guns (i.e., employment of more lethal means) are also thought to be a major reason why males have, on average, 2-4 times higher suicide rates than women, despite having only 1/4-1/2 as many suicide attempts as women. Overall the literature and data strongly implicate firearm access as a risk factor for suicide across all populations, and even more so for male, rural, and older populations.To achieve the most significant results in suicide prevention across all groups, we need 1) more emphasis on policies and universal programs to reduce suicidal behaviors, and 2) enhanced population-based strategies for ameliorating the two most prominent modifiable targets for suicide prevention: depression and firearms.
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