Twenty three percent of [people in prison], including 30% of women and 22% of men, reported a history of having “overdosed or become unconscious as a result of taking drugs.”
“Bad jobs” are typically considered those that pay low wages and do not include access to health insurance and pension benefits. As shown here, about 10% of full-time workers are in low-wage jobs, about 30% don’t have health insurance, and about 40% don’t have pensions. The graph also shows that the likelihood of being in a bad job is much worse for part-time workers, for on-call and day laborers, and for those working for temporary help agencies.
Uninsured children by poverty status, age, race and Hispanic origin
In 2007, 8.1 million children under 18 years old were without health insurance. Children in poverty and Hispanic children were more likely to be uninsured.
One third of people in prison have thought about killing themselves.
Forty percent of women [in prison] reported having had at least one miscarriage.
Estimates based on a meta analysis of 13 studies from 1990-2007.
If the Indigenous Australian population was a country, its life expectancy would rank 178th in the world (compared to Australia’s ranking of 7th), between Cambodia and Botswana.
[unpublished]
“The suicide rate in California’s overcrowded prisons is nearly twice the national average, and one inmate dies every eight days from inadequate medical care.”
latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-california-prisons-20101129,0,933672.story (via thisisamericadude)
Twenty-four of the dead children were indigenous, making the Aboriginal suicide rate six times higher than for white children.
Nationally, the suicide rate among indigenous people aged 15 and older is more than double the rate of other Australians.
Strategy to reduce suicide in children (via Shara)
Suicide is the leading cause of death for children aged 10 to 14 in Queensland, the state with the most comprehensive data on suicide deaths. More than half the children who killed themselves had tried it before, and four in 10 had witnessed the suicide of a friend, family or community member, according to the Queensland Commission for Children and Young People.
Strategy to reduce suicide in children (via Shara)
One study found that 21 percent of 25,000 men autopsied in Siberia between 1990 and 2004 whose deaths were attributed to circulatory diseases had lethal or near-lethal ethanol concentrations in their blood.
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