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June 13, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Here in the United States, in 2009, the last year for which data are available, some 37,000 Americans died by their own hands, making suicide the tenth leading cause of death in the nation and the fourth leading cause for adults ages 18 to 65. By an ...
April 9, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
By Jennifer Stuber, PhD, assistant professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. Stuber is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program (2004-2006). Her research interests include health ...
November 11, 2011 | New Public Health Post
A veteran commits suicide every 80 minutes, according to reported information from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Unreported deaths may push those numbers even higher. Foundations and government agencies are addressing the issue through screeni ...
April 1, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Over the last half century, the worldwide health community has made significant gains in decreasing the impact of communicable diseases. But those gains are being eroded in one demographic group by suicide, violence and accidents. Young men worldwid ...
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey reported that roughly 14.5 percent of U.S. high school students considered suicide in 2006. This study used focus groups to uncover common beliefs about teen suicide
March 1, 2007 | Program Result
The University of Pennsylvania conducted research on whether media coverage of suicides encourages more suicides, disseminated newly developed guidelines for responsible media coverage and evaluated the guidelines' effectiveness.
December 1, 2002 | Program Result
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed news coverage of a videotaped assisted suicide that was shown on the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes" in November 1998.
March 1, 2001 | Program Result
In 1997 and 1998, staff at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., organized two conferences on physician-assisted suicide and what it means to persons with disabilities, along with two training sessions that focused on developing ways of educating people with disabilities on the subject.
February 18, 2013 | New Public Health Post
An article in the New York Times reports that health departments in some states are increasing their efforts on gun safety and suicide prevention in part because of a startling finding by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health: far more ...
April 18, 2011 | Journal Article
Characteristics of the social environment increase the risk of suicide attempts for lesbian, gay and bisexual youth.