Rising suicide rates among middle-aged Americans

 

After decades of decline, the suicide rates on the rise among Americans, especially among whites, men and women, in the middle age group, reaching the highest rate during periods of President George W. Bush.

Reported a study published in the journal “Preventive Medicine” segment that American whites between the ages of forty and 64 years, recently emerged as a new and more prone to go on suicide. Escalated white suicide rates in the age group mentioned above, during the period from 1999 and 2005, approximately 3 Per cent annually between men and 4 per cent among women, according to the Susan Baker, of “School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg, in Maryland.

The rates of suicide among Asian and Native American at the same level, while the blacks. The suicide rate in the United States has increased during the eighties era, and then taken into recession, the annual rate, from 1986 to 1999, to begin since that time and until 2005, the escalating rate of 0.7 per cent per annum. And the oldest 32 thousand and 637 U.S. suicide in 2005, the rate of 11 per 100 thousand people. The suicide firearms of the most common means, but this use is decreasing with the passage of time, replaced by a suicide by hanging or suffocation

Amandamemo

Advertisement

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s


Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.