Suicide Is an Urgent Public Health Issue in America

Screening for suicide risk can save lives

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Projects: Suicide Risk Reduction
Suicide Is an Urgent Public Health Issue in America
  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality 2018-2021 on CDC WONDER Online Database, accessed March 3, 2023, http://wonder.cdc.gov.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System, Mortality 1999-2020 on CDC WONDER Online Database, accessed March 23, 2023, http://wonder.cdc.gov.
  4. B.K. Ahmedani et al., “Health Care Contacts in the Year Before Suicide Death,” Journal of General Internal Medicine 29, no. 6 (2014), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4026491/.
  5. I.W. Miller et al., “Suicide Prevention in an Emergency Department Population: The ED-SAFE Study,” JAMA Psychiatry 74, no. 6 (2017): 563-70, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28456130/.

If you or someone you know needs help, please call or text the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 or visit 988lifeline.org and click on the chat button.

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Projects: Suicide Risk Reduction
Topics: Health Care & Behavioral Health
Tags: Mental health
Experts: Kristen Mizzi Angelone
Places: United States
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