TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Do Geographic Regions with Higher Suicide Rates also have Higher Rates of Nonfatal Intentional Self-Harm?
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Claassen, Cynthia A.
A1  - Carmody, Thomas
A1  - Bossarte, Robert M.
A1  - Trivedi, Madhukar H.
A1  - Elliott, Simon
A1  - Currier, Glenn W.
SP  - 637
EP  - 649
VL  - 38
IS  - 6
N2  - Fatal and nonfatal intentional self-harm events in eight U.S. states were compared using emergency department, hospital, and vital statistics data. Nonfatal event rates increased by an estimated 24.20% over 6 years. Case fatality ratios varied widely, but two northeastern states' total event rates (fatal plus nonfatal) were very high (New Hampshire 206.5/100,000 person years; Massachusetts 166.7/100,000). Geographic context did not uniformly impact the likelihood of self-harm across event types. The state-level public health burden posed by such acts cannot, therefore, be accurately estimated from either mortality or morbidity data alone.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.637
ID  - ref1
ER  -