Suicide Rates by Major Occupational Group — 17 States, 2012 and 2015

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  Bartholow, Brad ; Lokey, Colby N. ; Luo, Feijun ; Marsh, Suzanne M. ; McIntosh, Wendy LiKamWa ; Peterson, Cora ; Schumacher, Pamela K. ; Stone, Deborah M. ; Tiesman, Hope M. ; Trudeau, Aimée-Rika T.
• Description:
  During 2000-2016, the suicide rate among the U.S. working age population (persons aged 16-64 years) increased 34%, from 12.9 per 100,000 population to 17.3 (https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars). To better understand suicide among different occupational groups and inform suicide Prevention efforts, CDC analyzed suicide deaths by Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) major groups for decedents aged 16-64 years from the 17 states participating in both the 2012 and 2015 National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) (https://www.cdc.gov/violencePrevention/nvdrs). The occupational group with the highest male suicide rate in 2012 and 2015 was Construction and Extraction (43.6 and 53.2 per 100,000 civilian noninstitutionalized working persons, respectively), whereas the group with the highest female suicide rate was Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media (11.7 [2012] and 15.6 [2015]). The largest suicide rate increase among males from 2012 to 2015 (47%) occurred in the Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media occupational group (26.9 to 39.7) and among females, in the Food Preparation and Serving Related group, from 6.1 to 9.4 (54%). CDC's technical package of strategies to prevent suicide is a resource for communities, including workplace settings (1).
• Subjects:
  Full Report Mental Health Occupational Health Suicide
• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 67(45):1253-1260
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6745a1
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Pubmed ID:
  30439869
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6290804
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  8 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Purdin, Jeff ; Hirst, Matthew ; Burton, Susan ; Huddleston, Jenny ; Smith, Elizabeth
• Volume:
  67
• Issue:
  45
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053657
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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  urn:sha-512:9617474473a464dae1a412c0861d91a91f7e2d8422e99a015b7ea88fef8c9997594bddde178ff3251eb7cf384a79cb6edc394daec95000755afe810a0948373c
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/62094/cdc_62094_DS1.pdf
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