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National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
Goals and Objectives for Action: Summary
Inventory Number SMA01-3518
National Strategy for Suicide Prevention
Goals and Objectives for Action: Full Report
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SUICIDE: Cost to the Nation
- Every 17 minutes another life is lost to suicide. Every day 86 Americans take their own life and over 1500 attempt suicide.
- Suicide is now the eighth leading cause of death in Americans.
- For every two victims of homicide in the U.S. there are three persons who take their own lives.
- There are now twice as many deaths due to suicide than due to HIV/AIDS.
- Between 1952 and 1995, the incidence of suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled.
- In the month prior to their suicide, 75% of elderly persons had visited a physician.
- Over half of all suicides occur in adult men, aged 25-65.
- Many who make suicide attempts never seek professional care immediately after the attempt.
- Males are four times more likely to die from suicide than are females.
- More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined.
- Suicide takes the lives of more than 30,000 Americans every year.
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