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Friday July 30,2010

Self-Inflicted/Suicide

by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

(Data are for U.S. for year in parentheses)

Health care use

Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 400,000 (2001)

Source/more data: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2001 Emergency Department Summary

Mortality

All suicides

Number of deaths: 30,622 (2001)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.8 (2001)

Firearm suicides

Number of deaths: 16,869 (2001)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.9 (2001)

Suffocation suicides

Number of deaths: 6,198 (2001)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.2 (2001)

Poisoning suicides

Number of deaths: 5,191 (2001)

Deaths per 100,000 population: 1.8 (2001)

Source/more data: Deaths: Final Data for 2001, table 18

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