ArticleJournal of occupational health2025
Suicide deaths by occupation skill level and educational attainment in the United States.
Article in Journal of occupational health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Causes of death contributions to the sex gaps in life expectancy: evidence by education levels from Australia.BMC public health · 2026Article
- The Influence of Relationships on Engagement in an Australian Construction Industry Suicide Prevention Programme.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
- Understanding Latine disparities in nocturnal wakefulness as a suicide risk factor.Sleep epidemiology · 2025Article
- Changes in the association between county industrial composition and working-age mortality from 2000 to 2022.SSM - population health · 2025Article
- Suicide and Self-Harming Among Young Women: A Qualitative Exploratory Study in Southern Punjab, Pakistan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo estimate the association between suicide deaths and both occupational skill level and educational attainment in the United States.
methodsSuicide deaths, employment, education, and demographic data from the 2021 National Center for Health Statistics Multiple Cause of Death Files, for ages 18-64 with a lifetime history of employment, were combined with comparable participants from the 2020-2022 Current Population Survey. Outcomes of interest were associations between suicide death and occupational skill level, assessed as a 5-level variable, and educational attainment. Logistic regression models were used to estimate these associations before and after adjusting for educational attainment, age, and sex, in each racial/ethnic subpopulation.
resultsWe found a significant gradient in suicide death across occupational skill levels, with lower-skill occupations associated with higher suicide rates than higher-skill occupations. This gradient was more pronounced among non-Hispanic White (NHW) people and non-Hispanic Black (NHB) people than Hispanic people. However, upon controlling for educational attainment, this association was attenuated, indicating that the initial link was likely confounded by education.
conclusionsThe results suggest that educational attainment is a more robust predictor of suicide risk than occupational skill level. Targeted interventions addressing educational and ethnic disparities within higher-risk occupational groups can mitigate suicide risk.
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