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The VA conducts the largest national analysis of Veteran suicide rates each year. Findings are made available to the public in an Annual Report . The report is based on national death certificate data currently available through 2021.
Using national death certificate data, VA conducts an in-depth analysis of Veteran suicide rates each year. Findings are made available to the public in an annual report. Learn more about VA's suicide prevention efforts.
determine whether suicide rates will increase or decrease for Calendar Year 2024. To help determine the impact of suicide on the Total Force, the Defense Suicide Prevention Office (DSPO) routinely collects and reports surveillance data on suicide mortality across the Department.
information regarding suicide mortality among Veterans and non-Veteran U.S. adults, from 2001 through 2021, including the first full year of information since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020.
Research shows that an average of 17.5 veterans die by suicide each day. At ViVE 2024, Shereef Elnahal, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ under secretary for health, declared that even...
The Center of Excellence for Suicide Prevention's (COE-SP) surveillance activities are critical elements to the VA's overall public health strategy to reduce suicide among Veterans.
So far in 2024, 55 soldiers have died by suicide. Army officials, in an interview with USA TODAY, pointed to increasing rates of suicide in U.S. society as whole that are reflected in their...
This report provides new information regarding suicide death among Veterans and non-Veteran U.S. adults from 2001 through 2021. It is important to highlight that this report includes the first full year of information since the onset of COVID-19 of March 2020.
In 2019, VA’s National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report estimated that 6,139 U.S. Veterans died by suicide in 2017, an average of 16.8 per day. In that year, the suicide rate for Veterans was 1.5 times the rate for non-Veteran adults, after adjusting for population differences in age and sex.
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