Estimates based on a meta analysis of 13 studies from 1990-2007.
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.
In nine countries life expectancy fell below 1970 levels: six in Africa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe) and three in the former Soviet Union (Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine).
“For every 100 people put on treatment, 250 are newly infected, according to the United Nations’ AIDS-fighting agency, Unaids.
That makes prospects for the future grim. Worldwide, even though two million people with the disease die each year, the total keeps growing because nearly three million adults and children become infected.
Even now, the fight is falling short. Of the 33 million people infected, 14 million are immuno-compromised enough to need drugs now, under the latest World Health Organization guidelines.
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Homicide was the second leading cause of death among Louisiana youth ages 10–35, and the principal cause of death among African Americans 15 to 24 years of age. As in every state, metropolitan areas have significantly higher homicide rates than suburban or rural areas. Conservative murder rate estimates for New Orleans for 2007 are 76.4 per 100,000 - over 13 times the national average.
“The average life span for African-Americans in Louisiana today (72.2 years) is shorter than that of Colombians, Vietnamese and Venezuelans. The average life span of an African-American in New Orleans is 69.3 years, nearly as low as life expectancy in North Korea.
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Whites in Orleans (Southwest) have a Human Development index score higher than that of topranked Connecticut. African Americans in Tangipahoa Parish have well-being levels of the average American in the early 1950’s.”
Indigenous people are three times as likely as non-Indigenous people to die as a result of poor quality of environment.
