TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - AJPH supplement on military suicide JO - American journal of public health A1 - Waitzkin, Howard A1 - Englehart, Jeffrey D. SP - e7 EP - e7 VL - 102 IS - 9 N2 - As coordinators of a civilian network serving active-duty GIs,(1,2) we comment on the Supplement about military suicide.(3) First, the epidemic's magnitude deserves greater emphasis. Eighteen veterans kill themselves daily.(4) An average of one active-duty GI commits suicide every 1.1 days.(5) More GIs deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan will die from suicide than from combat. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print July 19, 2012: e1. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2012.300869).
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