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Report Says Youth Suicide Increasing In Rural America

http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2195006
Widening Rural-Urban Disparities in Youth Suicides, United States, 1996-2010

A new study says that the youth suicide ratein rural America is growing, compared to the number of youth suicides in cities.

Ryan White wrote about the study for the website Reporting on Health.  He is a contributing editor at the website. White talked to MTPR News Director Eric Whitney about a new study in JAMA Pediatrics that shows youth suicide rates are twice as high in rural counties as in cities.

 

Eric Whitney is NPR's Mountain West/Great Plains Bureau Chief, and was the former news director for Montana Public Radio.
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