Suicide
Rates of suicide for adults between 35 and 64 years in the United States
According to date from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC&P), suicide rates among adults aged between 35 and 64 years are on the rise. The period from 1999 -- 2010 saw an annual age-adjusted rate of suicide in this age bracket increase by slightly over 28%. The findings also show that the three leading methods of committing suicide are use of firearms, poisoning and suffocation. In suffocation, hanging was the predominant method while in poisoning drug overdose was the most predominant method. Findings from this period show that the greatest increase in suicide methods was in hanging which saw an 81% increase while poisoning and firearms saw a 24% and 14% increase respectively Sullivan, Annest, Luo, Simon, & Dahlberg, 2013()
According to the report, men were 2 -- 3 times more likely to commit suicide than women. Rates increased for both men and women in the age bracket of 35 -- 64 years increased considerably. For men, the suicide rate increased from 21.5 to 27.3 per 100,000 people, representing a 27.3% increase while for women, it increased from 6.2 to 8.1 per 100,000 people representing a 31.5% increase. For both men and women, the findings show that the rates of suicide increased with age. Men aged between 50 and 59 years were more likely to commit suicide compared to other age group while for women, the largest increase in suicide rates was in the 60 -- 64 years age group Sullivan et al., 2013()
Factors likely to contribute to increasing suicide rates
According to Luo, Florence, Quispe-Agnoli, Ouyang, & Crosby, 2011(Sullivan et al. (2013)
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