Children’s health: seven highlights from research
Suicide is one of the 10 most common causes of death in children aged 12 and younger in the United States, and the numbers of suicides are rising. James Price, a professor emeritus of Health Education and Public Health at the University of Toledo, Ohio, and Jagdish Khubchandani, a public-health researcher, at New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, analysed suicides in the United States from 2010 to 2019.
Previous studies have similarly noted alarming rises in child suicides in the United States. The causes of these high rates are not precisely known, but they include mood disorders, exposure to trauma and access to firearms. National statistics show that the overall suicide rate in the United States declined slightly in 2019, and this continued into the pandemic: suicide rates were 3% lower in 2020 than in 2019. But Marie-Laure Charpignon, who is studying social and engineering systems and statistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and her colleagues reported that although total suicide-related deaths in the United States declined during this period, the same is not true among adolescents.
In 2021, the American Academy of Pediatrics, along with other hospital and psychiatry associations, declared a national emergency in child and adolescent mental health, asking for more funding for mental-health screening and care.
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