TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - Method-specific suicide mortality in the United States in the 21st century JO - Annals of internal medicine A1 - Dhungel, Bibha A1 - Shand, Fiona A1 - Nguyen, Phuong A1 - Wang, Yijing A1 - Fujita-Imazu, Sayuri A1 - Khin Maung Soe, July A1 - Xie, Jinzhao A1 - Wang, Xinran A1 - Li, Jinghua A1 - Gilmour, Stuart SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - BACKGROUND: Although global suicide mortality rates decreased by almost a third between 1990 and 2016 (1), suicide mortality in the United States has increased rapidly (2). Particularly high suicide mortality has been identified among American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) people (2), whose life expectancy is also 7 years shorter than that of the White population in the United States (3). Understanding trends and patterns in suicide mortality in AIAN populations may offer insights into strategies to reduce health inequality in this highly vulnerable population. Objective: To assess temporal trends and patterns in method-specific suicide by sex and race using...
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LA - en SN - 0003-4819 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/M23-2533 ID - ref1 ER -