Suicide Epidemic: causes and preventions
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Authors
Helmick, Walter J. III
Issue Date
2020
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
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Abstract
In the past 20 years, the suicide rate has risen from 13% to more than 20%. For this reason, researchers and congressmen have come together to address what is known about suicide, its annual statistical rates, methods, current to future prevention strategies, policies and acts. Since the 1950s, the United States started to recognize that suicide was a growing problem across the nation. Thus, preventive matters and studies were set in place for the purpose of decreasing suicide rates. This counterattack on suicide was successful until around the late 1990s where the rate started to gradually increase once again. Main goal of this research is to show how suicide is yet again becoming a major problem. In order to achieve this objective, relevant research articles, ideas, policies and programs were gathered for the purpose of seeing where America is at in basic knowledge and understanding and how close we are to a breakthrough in finding a more efficient preventive strategy.