Many Factors Contribute to Suicide Among Those with and Without Mental Health Conditions: CDC Vital Signs: June 7, 2018

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Communications.
• Description:
  Relationship problem (42%)
  
  Problematic substance use (28%)
  
  Crisis in the past or upcoming two weeks (29%)
  
  Criminal legal problem (9%)
  
  Physical health problem (22%)
  
  Loss of housing (4%)
  
  Job/Financial problem (16%)
  
  Note: Persons who died by suicide may have had multiple circumstances. Data on mental health conditions and other factors are from coroner/medical examiner and law enforcement reports. It is possible that mental health conditions or other circumstances could have been present and not diagnosed, known, or reported.
  
  SOURCE: CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System, data from 27 states participating in 2015.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Suicide
• Series:
  Vital Signs
• Document Type:
  Still Image
• Genre:
  Infographic ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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