Kidsdata Advisory, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

Highlighting new and noteworthy data from kidsdata.org
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | April 29, 2010

Newly Posted: Statewide Decline in Youth Suicide Rate from '97-'07

May is Mental Health Month, and over the next several weeks, kidsdata.org will release a number of measures of children's emotional well being in California, from depression to school connectedness to bullying. This week, kidsdata.org's statewide expansion continues with the addition of statewide data for another key measure of emotional well being - youth suicides and self-inflicted injuries. These newly available data, covering the years 1995 to 2007, are available by age, gender, and race/ethnicity, making it easy to pinpoint trends and disparities across California.

Kidsdata.org is a public service sponsored by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. You can use these data, as well as related measures of emotional and behavioral health, in reports, presentations, proposals, advocacy work, program planning and other efforts. Data on more topics will be phased in over the next several months.

View the New Youth Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury Data

County-Level Suicide Numbers: By Age | By Gender | By Race/Ethnicity
County-Level Self-Inflicted Injury Hospitalizations: By Age
Youth Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury Hospitalization Rates
Selected Facts About Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury

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Key Facts

From 1995-97 to 2005-07, California’s youth suicide rate declined by 27 percent.
Males are much more likely than females to commit suicide. Among California youth ages 15-24, between 1995 and 2007, four-to-five times as many males committed suicide each year than females.
California’s rate of hospitalizations for self-inflicted injuries among youth ages 5-20 decreased nearly every year from 2001-06.
Over a 10-year period, from 1998-2007, nearly 4,000 (3,836) California children and youth ages 5-24 committed suicid e.

Sources: California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics and California Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control Branch

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