Study examines poverty, suicide associations among US youth

What The Study Did:

Associations between county-level concentrations of poverty in the United States and suicide rates among children and adolescents (ages 5 to 19) were explored in this observational study.

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Jennifer A. Hoffman, M.D., of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.5678)

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