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Preventing suicide : a technical package of policies, programs, and practice

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Traumatic brain injury-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths - United States, 2007 and 2013

TL;DR: This report describes the estimated incidence of TBI-related emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and deaths during 2013 and makes comparisons to similar estimates from 2007, and indicates progress has been made to prevent motor-vehicle crashes.
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Vital Signs: Trends in State Suicide Rates - United States, 1999-2016 and Circumstances Contributing to Suicide - 27 States, 2015.

TL;DR: Various circumstances contributed to suicides among persons with and without known mental health conditions, including relationship problems/loss, life stressors, and recent/impending crises were common across groups.
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National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action.

L Fisher
- 01 Jun 2002 - 
TL;DR: In 1999, the publication of Kay Redfield Jamison's Night Falls Fast catalyzed national reassessment of suicide causes, prevention, and control in the USA and provided a base for institutionalization on suicide prevention.
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Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits Among Children Aged <18 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, January 1-October 17, 2020.

TL;DR: Assessment of changes in mental health-related ED visits among U.S. children aged <18 years from January 1 through October 17, 2020, compared with those collected during the same period in 2019 provides initial insight into children's mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study

TL;DR: For example, this article found a strong relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse or household dysfunction during childhood and multiple risk factors for several of the leading causes of death in adults.
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Suicide as an outcome for mental disorders. A meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Almost all mental disorders have an increased risk of suicide excepting mental retardation and dementia, which is highest for functional and lowest for organic disorders with substance misuse disorders lying between.
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Childhood Abuse, Household Dysfunction, and the Risk of Attempted Suicide Throughout the Life Span Findings From the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study

TL;DR: A powerful graded relationship exists between adverse childhood experiences and risk of attempted suicide throughout the life span, and alcoholism, depressed affect, and illicit drug use, which are strongly associated with such experiences, appear to partially mediate this relationship.
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Adverse childhood experiences and the risk of depressive disorders in adulthood.

TL;DR: The results suggest that exposure to ACEs is associated with increased risk of depressive disorders up to decades after their occurrence, and early recognition of childhood abuse and appropriate intervention may play an important role in the prevention of depressive Disorders throughout the life span.
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Excess mortality of mental disorder.

TL;DR: All mental disorders have an increased risk of premature death, and risk of death from unnatural causes is especially high for the functional disorders, particularly schizophrenia and major depression.
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