by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Education, Public Health, US West
Suicides in the USA increased 31% from 2000 to 2020. Currently about 46,000 people a year successfully commit suicide. LS 2015 Washington Post county level map of US suicide rates County and State Data Map: Defining Mental Health Across Communities | Mental...
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
NHTSA’s 2021 Estimate of Traffic Deaths Shows 16-Year High About 2.5 million are injured each year due to vehicles. Some of these injuries are long term or lifetime in duration. (LS)
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
Up to 40 percent of annual deaths from each of five leading US causes are preventable | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
The disease burden of noncommunicable diseases – PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization
by Larry Shultz | Mar 8, 2023 | Public Health
Tobacco-Related Mortality | CDC Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year.1,6 Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause the following:1 More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke) 278,544 deaths...
