Skip to main content
Rural Health Information Hub

Unpacking the Geography of America's Youth Suicide Epidemic

Description
Analyzes data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database from 2000 through 2019 looking at suicide rates in 10 to 24-year-olds by 15 community types such as aging farmlands, Native American lands, rural middle America, and more. Includes discussion highlighting suicide rates among Native American populations and differences between rural and urban residents.
Author(s)
Dante Chinni
Date
10/2021
Type
Document
Organization
American Communities Project
Tagged as
American Indian or Alaska Native · Mental health · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Suicide and suicide prevention

Organizations (1)