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Show Suicide rates nationwide and in Utah have changed very little over the past two decades. However while Utah's suicide rate has remained relatively constant, the absolute number of persons dying as a result of suicide has increased with Utah's increasing population. Utah's age-adjusted death rates for suicide are consistently higher than the national rate. The Utah:U.S. ratio shows Utah to be about 1.3 times that of the national rate. The Mountain States, in general, have typically had higher suicide rates than the nation. Although Utah's rate is higher than the national rate, it is lower than the rate for the mountain states region for the years when data are available. The difference in the mortality rates between Utah males and females is dramatic. Males in Utah are, on average, almost four times as likely to die from suicide than females5 Suicide (ICD-9Code: E950-E959) (1997 Total Deaths in Utah = 297) Table 52. Suicide Rates Utah Table 52 and 53. Sources: Utah 1982-1997: Utah Department of Health, Division of Community Health. Action 2000. (online) Available: http://www.health.ut.us/action2000/ U.S. 1980-1997: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics. Monthly Vital Statistics Report: Annual Summary of Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths United States, (online) Available: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/ Utah:U.S. Year Utah U.S. (Ratio) 1980 14.6 11.4 1.28:1 1981 14.7 11.5 1.28:1 1982 14.3 11.6 1.23:1 1983 14.6 11.4 1.28:1 1984 15.3 11.6 1.32:1 1985 14.2 11.5 1.23:1 1986 15.9 11.9 1.34:1 1987 15.3 11.7 1.31:1 1988 14.8 11.4 1.30:1 1989 13.4 11.3 1.19:1 1990 16.4 11.5 1.43:1 1991 16.9 11.4 1.48:1 1992 15.3 11.1 1.38:1 1993 15.2 11.3 1.35:1 1994 15.7 11.2 1.40:1 1995 15.2 11.0 1.38:1 1996 14.6 11.6 1.26:1 1997 14.9 11.1 1.34:1 * Age-adjusted rates per 100,000 population. Rates age-adjusted to the 1940 standard population. Table 53. Suicide Mortality by Sex in Utah* Years1 Total Male Female 1979-81 14.5 23.2 6.3 1982-84 14.8 24.1 5.9 1985-87 15.1 24.4 6.3 1988-90 14.8 24.1 6.1 1991-93 15.8 26.5 5.4 1994 15.7 25.9 5.9 1995 15.2 24.8 5.8 1996 14.6 24.3 5.2 1997 14.9 23.5 6.4 Note: from 1979 to 1993 the Utah numbers represent a three-year average because of the small number of deaths per yea Suicide Utah U.S. 20 -- Age-adjusted 15 --Mortality per 100,000 Population 5 + 0 10 -- 1970 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 5 Bureau of Surveillance and Analysis. (1999). Suicide in Utah. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Department of Health. 84 |