US: Suicide Now NUMBER ONE Cause of Injury Death

[presence]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207089/56-million-suicide-prevention-programme-launched-study-reveals-Americans-lives-die-car-crashes.html


The number of people who commit suicide in the U.S. has drastically increased while deaths from car accidents have dropped, making suicide the leading cause of injury death.

[alucard13mmfmj]

seeing how economy sucks and a lot of peopel struggle and a lot of people coming back from warzone. not surprised.

[Keith and stuff]

Car accident deaths are dropping. That is great news.

[Zippyjuan]

They note that the "soaring" increase in suicide deaths is 15%. Deaths from falls rose 71% while deaths due to injuries from automobiles fell 25%.


The results were compiled using National Center for Health Statistics data gathered from 2000 to 2009.

Researchers noted a 25 per cent decrease in fatal car accidents, medicalxpress.com reported, while deaths from falls rose 71 per cent, poisoning 128 per cent and from suicide 15 per cent.

Higher automobile standards were credited for the decrease in deaths on the road, with harsher penalties for underage drinking and failing to wear seat belts named as contributing factors.



In 2009, more than 37,000 Americans took their own lives, a number that the government and private groups such as Facebook are fighting to lower.


Also note that between 2000 and 2009 the US population grew by 9% so that would account for more than half of the increase in the number of suicides (assuming that the rate as a percent of the population remained the same). http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/

Backing off the figures would mean 32,000 deaths by suicide in 2000 or an increase of 5,000 since then. Population growth would have increased it by about 3,000 so we have an increase of additional 2000 suicides in a population of 300 million living and out of 2.4 million dying in 2009.

Other leading causes of death:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm


Deaths and Mortality

(Data are for the U.S. and are final 2009 data; For the most recent preliminary data see Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2010 [PDF - 724 KB])


•Number of deaths: 2,437,163
•Death rate: 793.8 deaths per 100,000 population
•Life expectancy: 78.5 years
•Infant Mortality rate: 6.39 deaths per 1,000 live births

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

•Heart disease: 599,413
•Cancer: 567,628
•Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 137,353
•Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,842
•Accidents (unintentional injuries): 118,021
•Alzheimer's disease: 79,003
•Diabetes: 68,705
•Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,692
•Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 48,935
•Intentional self-harm (suicide): 36,909

[CaptainAmerica]

I know someone who committed suicide.She was only 22 and this statistic doesnt surprise me since so many homes are broken families and society has this heavy pressure on young people to "succeed" and what the definition of "success" is. Public schools tout false notions of success in life,and no emphasis on doing what you love and being happy in life.I often hear people make fun of the "starving artist", but even a starving artist has more happiness in most cases than a person who doesn't do what they love. As an artist/musician I have pressure all around me telling me "you can't be an artist/musician, its for losers" , and I come from a family that despises and treats it like it is nothing and will never amount to anything.I feel that art is very much a part of me as water is ,and so I say people can't force a square into a circle hole.Society has been disfigured into believing that outward appearances of success is more important than the inner conquering of resistance. Anyhow,people just need to realize their potential and love life at its most simple and basic understanding that things do not last forever and the only thing we have control of is our love,happiness and thankfulness.

[thoughtomator]

Car accident deaths are dropping. That is great news.

only because of fewer hours being driven due to people being out of work and gas being so expensive

[ShaneEnochs]

I've known three people that I went to school with that killed themselves. All of them were from fucked up homes. That stuff sticks with you, yo.

[youngbuck]

Zippyjuan, your info provides some relativity, but the OP article concerns injury death.

[Zippyjuan]

Yes- injury deaths from from suicides. You are correct. Which is what I covered.

[pacelli]

I just searched the current issue and the lead researcher quoted in the article is not in the October 2012 issue....named Rockett

... http://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/102/10