Veterans and suicide: a reexamination of the National Death Index-linked National Health Interview Survey.

Abstract

Consistent with most studies of suicide risk among veterans of conflicts before Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom, but in contrast to a previous study using the NDI-linked NHIS data, we found that male veterans responding to the NHIS were modestly, but not significantly, at higher risk for suicide compared with male nonveterans.

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Subjects

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Cause of Death
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Proportional Hazards Models
• Registries
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Factors
• Suicide
• United States
• Veterans

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Authors

• Matthew Miller
• Catherine Barber
• Melissa Young
• Deborah Azrael
• Kenneth Mukamal
• Elizabeth Lawler

Publication date

2012-03-06

Journal

Journal topics

• Public Health

Language

Eng.

Copyright

American journal of public health

Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Harvard School of Public Heath, Boston, MA 02115, USA. mmiller [at] hsph.harvard.edu

Release reference

Am J Public Health. 2012 Mar;102 Suppl 1():S154-9

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