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Recent Articles and Key Facts

"Nearly 1 in 5 Teens Seriously Considers Suicide. Can Schools Offer Relief?"
Stark, Lisa. "Nearly 1 in 5 Teens Seriously Considers Suicide. Can Schools Offer Relief?" PBS News Hour. Last modified November 13, 2018.
"How to Fight Suicide: Keeping Folks Alive is a Collective Task."
Brooks, David. "How to Fight Suicide: Keeping Folks Alive is a Collective Task." New York Times. Last modified March 14, 2019.
"Suicide Key Facts."
World Health Organization. "Suicide Key Facts." Last modified August 24, 2018.

Close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year.
For every suicide there are many more people who attempt suicide every year. A prior suicide attempt is the single most important risk factor for suicide in the general population.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among 15 to 29-year-olds.
79% of global suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries.
Ingestion of pesticide, hanging and firearms are among the most common methods of suicide globally.

"Mental Health"
World Health Organization. "Mental Health." 2019.
"Mental Health."
Ritchie, Hannah and Max Roser. "Mental Health." Our World in Data, 2018.
"Vital Signs: Trends in State Suicide Rates - United States, 1999-2016 and Circumstances Contributing to Suicide - 27 States, 2015."
Stone, Deborah M., Thomas R. Simon, Katherine A. Fowler, Scott R. Kegler, Keming Yuan, Kristin M. Holland, Asha Z. Ivey-Stephenson, Alex E. Crosby. "Vital Signs: Trends in State Suicide Rates - United States, 1999-2016 and Circumstances Contributing to Suicide - 27 States, 2015." Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 67, no. 22 (June 2018): 617-24.
"Mental Health Information: Statistics."
National Institute of Mental Health. "Mental Health Information: Statistics." 2018.
"Suicide"
Lee, Lindsay, Max Roser and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. "Suicide." Our World in Data, 2016.
"Suicide Rates in California: Trends and Implications for Prevention and Early Intervention Programs."
Ramchand, Rajeev and Amariah Becker. "Suicide Rates in California: Trends and Implications for Prevention and Early Intervention Programs." Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2014.

Social Change and Micronesian Suicide Mortality: A Test of Competing Hypotheses
Lowe, Edward D. "Social Change and Micronesian Suicide Mortality: A Test of Competing Hypotheses." Cross-Cultural Research 53, no. 1 (February 2019): 3-32.

"Rapid Societal Change and Mental Health Vulnerabilities in the Pacific Basin"
Call Number: DU29 .P18 2017
Lowe, Edward D. "Rapid Societal Change and Mental Health Vulnerabilities in the Pacific Basin." In The Pacific Basin: An Introduction, edited by Barter, Shane J. and Michael Weiner, 168-176. New York: Routledge, 2017.
"Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology."
Call Number: GN502 .C64 2007
Weisner, Thomas S. and Edward D. Lowe. "Globalization, Childhood, and Psychological Anthropology." In A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change, edited by Casey, Conerly and Robert B. Edgerton, 315-336. Oxford: Blackwell Publisher, 2007.

"Identity, Activity, and the Well-Being of Adolescents and Youth: Lessons from Young People in a Micronesian Society."
Lowe, Edward D. "Identity, Activity, and the Well-Being of Adolescents and Youth: Lessons from Young People in a Micronesian Society." Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry 27, no. 2 (2003): 187-219.