Suicide Rates Among Groups

Adolescents are an important group for every society and country. Each year unfortunately, thousands of adolescents are dying, not from cancer or car accidents, but by their own hands. They make the choice to take their lives. There are many laws and regulations promoting healthy lifestyles for adolescents within the United States. Adolescence is a period of physical and psychological change for teenagers. The central theme of the adolescent individual focuses on identity development, creating

LHI and Target: Reduce suicide rates from 11.3 to 10.2 per 100,000 population Target Population: Montana residents >5-14 years old Determinants: Age group, sex, race/ethnicity, geographic location The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Vital Statistics reported that Suicide was the 10th leading of cause of death within the United States in 2013, accounting for approximately 41,149 deaths per year or 112 deaths per day (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015).

linked to higher suicide rates. Durkheim’s study on suicide during the industrial revolution supports this theory as he states that, “people were increasingly disconnected from their communities and that this social upheaval had a greater effect on suicide rates than other factors like wealth” (Winner & Collishaw, 2011). Interestingly enough, despite the increase of media attention on suicide, no studies have been published that explain why suicide rates vary among different groups. However, various

of violence among youths. During the crack cocaine epidemic, the "super-predators" labeled by the public referred to adolescents aged 14 to 17 and young adults ages 18 to 24. Furthermore, this group of the population was accountable for an increase in fatality rate between 1984 and 1994, during which youth homicide victimizations committed with handguns increased by 418%; and youth homicide victimizations committed with other guns increased by 125% (Braga, 2003). The increasing rate of gun homicide

significant topic of research. However, youth suicides with a firearm need to be taken more attention of as the U.S. has the highest rate of youth suicide with a firearm among all of the industrialized countries (Webster et al., 2004). More importantly, the prevalence of youth gun suicide is evident, as it is the third leading cause of death among youth aged 10 to 19 years old in the U.S. (Webster et al., 2004). Past studies found that youth suicide is an indicator of gun prevalence and the existence

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Suicide is one of the public health issues that needs to be addressed among the youth population between the ages of 15 to 19 in Sacramento County, California. This target population includes people from a variety of different genders, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomic status. There is an urgent need of suicide prevention for this group of population based on the national, state, and local data as they show an increasing number of youth attempting and committing suicide. In the United States,

Healthy People 2020 set a goal of reducing the number of completed suicides among the adult population by ten percent. This is a reoccurring theme from Healthy People 2010, where the goal was to reduce the number of suicides from 10.5 to 4.8 per 100,000. Unfortunately, from 2003 to 2013, rate of death from suicide has steadily increased to the current rate of 13.0 per 100,000 deaths (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). The goal of Healthy People 2020 is to improve the health of our

Depression and suicide are two significant global public health concerns. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is estimated that there are 350 million people that suffer from depression (WHO, 2015a). Also, over 800,000 deaths from suicides occur each year (WHO, 2015b). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, year), approximately 18.8 million (9.5 percent) American adults, have a depressive disorder each year (CDC, 2013b). The CDC (2015) also reported that

DURKHEIM, SUICIDE, AND SOCIAL COHERENCE Durkheim’s study on suicide Suicide (French: Le Suicide) was a notable book in the field of humanism. Composed by French humanist Émile Durkheim and distributed in 1897 it was apparently a contextual analysis of suicide, a production one of a kind for its time that gave an illustration of what the sociological monograph ought to resemble. Some argue that it is not a contextual investigation, which makes it novel among other academic take a shot at the same