Mapping The Tsunami Of Suicides Across America
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“Mapping The Tsunami Of Suicides Across America”
by Tyler Durden
“Suicide is a very complicated public health issue, influenced by demographic characteristics, socioeconomic factors, as well as health- and crime-related factors. Since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), a tsunami of suicides has swept across America, making it the tenth leading cause of death, and in 2015, accounted for more than 44,000 deaths.
Understanding the geographic patterns of suicide can better inform the nation that something is not quite right.
Although government researchers have presented state-level trends in suicide rates, data at the county-level has been widely overlooked. The ‘County-Level Trends in Suicide Rates in the U.S., 2005–2015‘ report, issued by a team of researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used county-level changes in suicide rates to examine geographic trends and identify urban-rural patterns in these type of deaths from 2005 to 2015.
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Nationwide increase in suicide rates at the county level from 2005 to 2015
The animation above, created by The Washington Post from figures in the report, shows a never before seen explosion in suicide rates at the county level during the period. Researchers said suicide rates increased by more than 10 percent from 2005 to 2015 for 99 percent of the counties across the nation, with a shocking 87 percent of counties registering increases of more than 20 percent.
“The highest [suicide] rates across the period were seen in parts of Alaska, Arizona, northern California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, North and South Dakota, Oregon, and Wyoming,” the report discovered. By contrast, the regions with the lowest suicide rates were consistently seen across southern California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, New Jersey, along the Mississippi River, western Texas, and along the eastern coast of North and South Carolina.
Comparison of model-based versus direct estimates aggregated over larger geographies, or over 2005–2015.
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County-Level Trends in Suicide Rates in the U.S., 2005–2015.
(Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
Model-based county-level suicide rates in the U.S.,
2005 (top), 2010 (middle), and 2015 (bottom).
County-Level Trends in Suicide Rates in the U.S., 2005–2015.
(Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine)
Researchers note that suicide rates in rural counties are complicated to measure, however, for this study, statistical modeling methods to infer suicide rates for smaller counties, along with 50 sources of data helped to develop the most accurate estimate of suicides, to date.
“Although a more detailed understanding of geographic variation may be useful, attempts at estimating county-level suicide rate have been limited because the majority of counties report fewer than 20 suicide deaths per year. Direct estimates of suicide rate based on small numbers can be unstable and highly variable year to year, making it difficult to discern trends. To produce stable estimates, studies and web-based mapping tools, often aggregate over multiple years or states, potentially masking important trends and within-state variation, including urban–rural differences.”
Suicide is now the 10th leading cause of death in the nation. The research presents an unprecedented view of the implosion of America. Judging by the trajectory and, of course, momentum, it is only a matter of time before the wave of death strikes the East Coast.”
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Look, and you know if I’m talking to you. I understand all too well what you might be feeling, and won’t give you some empty words and false hope about “don’t give up”, etc, all that noise. Only you know if you’re really at the end, when your soul’s on fire and it’s simply unbearable to go one for one more hour. I know what you’re feeling, that’s all I’ll say. But if you can see a glimmer of hope, still not totally sure that it’s time to go, please, please, do consider these resources. Time passes, circumstances change and who knows, maybe something good will appear tomorrow if you can wait till then. I hope you can, and do… – CP
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