Citation

Walsh S, Charnigo R. Suicidol. Online 2012; 3: 92-101.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, The author(s), Publisher Medical University of Vienna, Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy)

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Abstract

Violence is a leading cause of mortality in the United States, accounting for about 50,000 deaths per year; the majority of violent deaths are suicides. We employ Poisson regression modeling to identify combinations of county level characteristics that are associated with elevated suicide rates. The most striking finding in our study was as unemployment increases so does the rate of county suicides. Knowledge about characteristics of communities in which suicide is more common may suggest how best to construct effective interventions and target limited resources for those interventions.

Keywords: Violent Death, Homicide, Suicide, Health Status, Ecological Model, Counties

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Language: en