1. Deaths of Despair: Conceptual and Clinical Implications - PMC
It is believed these causes of death—specifically, suicide, alcohol-related liver disease and cirrhosis, and drug/alcohol poisoning—are driving the overall ...
Since the late 1990s, mortality rates for middle-aged (45–55), White non-Hispanic (WNH) Americans began to rise while rates declined for all other demographic and age groups. Coinciding with the rise in mortality, rates of death due to suicide, ...
2. Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19 - CDC
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Figures present excess deaths associated with COVID-19 at the national and state levels.
3. Ethical and social implications of approaching death prediction in ...
Jul 27, 2020 · Philosophy and psychology have examined the meaning of death awareness for human beings, highlighting its existential and psychic implications.
The discovery of biomarkers of ageing has led to the development of predictors of impending natural death and has paved the way for personalised estimation of the risk of death in the general population. This study intends to identify the ethical resources available to approach the idea of a long-lasting dying process and consider the perspective of death prediction. The reflection on human mortality is necessary but not sufficient to face this issue. Knowledge about death anticipation in clinical contexts allows for a better understanding of it. Still, the very notion of prediction and its implications must be clarified. This study outlines in a prospective way issues that call for further investigation in the various fields concerned: ethical, psychological, medical and social. The study is based on an interdisciplinary approach, a combination of philosophy, clinical psychology, medicine, demography, biology and actuarial science. The present study proposes an understanding of death prediction based on its distinction with the relationship to human mortality and death anticipation, and on the analogy with the implications of genetic testing performed in pre-symptomatic stages of a disease. It leads to the identification of a multi-layered issue, including the individual and personal relationship to death prediction, the potential medical uses of biomarkers of ageing, the social and economic implications of the latter, especially in regard to the way longevity risk is percei...
4. Facts About Suicide | Suicide Prevention - CDC
Jul 23, 2024 · Suicidal behavior also has far-reaching impact. There were 49,430 suicides among individuals ages 12 and older in 2022. But suicides are just ...
This page provides facts about suicide.
5. The Implications of COVID-19 for Mental Health and Substance Use
Mar 20, 2023 · Among adolescents, drug overdose deaths have more than doubled from 2019 (282 deaths) to 2021 (637 deaths) following a period of relative ...
This brief explores mental health and substance use during, and prior to, the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight populations that were more likely to experience worse mental health and substance use outcomes during the pandemic and discuss some innovations in the delivery of services.
6. Deaths at home during the Covid-19 pandemic and implications for ...
Apr 5, 2023 · This new research sheds light on the services used by people who died at home in England, both before and during the first year of the pandemic.
There has been a steady increase in the numbers of people dying at home in recent years. These trends became entrenched during the pandemic, which could reflect people fearful of Covid-19 in hospitals and care homes just as much as broader patient preferences for dying at home. So did those dying at home receive the care they needed, at a good standard? This new research sheds light on the services used by people who died at home in England, before and during the first year of the pandemic.
7. Household air pollution - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 16, 2024 · Household air pollution was responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year in 2020, including over 237 000 deaths of children under ...
WHO fact sheet on indoor air pollution: includes key facts, definition, impact on health, impact on health equity, WHO response.
8. RESEARCH WEEKLY: Deaths from Suicide in 2022: A Summary of ...
This increasing rate of death from suicide among older adults is not always widely reported and deserves attention. The Meadows Institute's ...
by Jennifer M. Reingle Gonzalez, PhD, Rebecca Marcolina, MPH, Research, Data, & Analytics Team, and John Snook, JD, Chief Policy Officer, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute In this guest post, researchers from the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute share results of their analysis examining trends in death from suicide and associated policy opportunities to more
9. Costs & Consequences | Million Hearts®
Stroke · High Blood Pressure · Cholesterol · Salt. 1 in 3 deaths in the United States is due to cardiovascular disease.
Heart disease and stroke are among the most widespread and costly health problems facing the nation today. Learn more.
10. How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9 ...
The total death toll in these war zones could be at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting, though the precise mortality figure remains unknown. Some people were ...
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
11. Heat Island Impacts | US EPA
Aug 20, 2024 · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA. [6] Vaidyanathan. A., J. Malilay, P. Schramm, and S. Saha. 2020. Heat-related deaths ...
The heat island effect affects human health, energy use, air quality, and water quality.
12. Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: basic mechanisms and ...
Unlike many sudden cardiac deaths, no structural cause of death can be found in SUDEP.10 However, seizures do induce a variety of transient cardiac effects.
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is the most common cause of death in patients with intractable epilepsy. The substantial lifetime risk of SUDEP and the lack of a clear pathophysiological connection between epilepsy itself and sudden death have fuelled increased attention to this phenomenon. Understanding the mechanisms underlying SUDEP is paramount to developing preventative strategies. In this review, we discuss SUDEP population studies, case–control studies, witnessed and monitored cases, as well as human seizure cardiorespiratory findings related to SUDEP, and SUDEP animal models. We integrate these data to suggest the most probable mechanisms underlying SUDEP. Understanding the modifiable risk factors and pathophysiology allows us to discuss potential preventative strategies.
13. Analysis Suggests 2021 Texas Abortion Ban Resulted in Increase ...
Jun 24, 2024 · ... Deaths in State in Year After Law Went into Effect. Researchers use statistical modeling to estimate infant deaths expected if one of the ...
Researchers use statistical modeling to estimate infant deaths expected if one of the country’s most stringent state abortion laws had not been enacted.
14. Health Impacts of Air Pollution | State of Global Air
Air pollution contributed to 8.1 million deaths in 2021. Air pollution is the 2nd leading risk factor for early death, surpassed only by high blood pressure.
15. [PDF] AN ANALYSIS OF THE STOCK PRICE REACTION TO SUDDEN ...
Implications for the Managerial Labor Market* ... Therefore, our empirical results on the shareholder wealth effects of unexpected executives' deaths may not ...
16. Speeding and Aggressive Driving Prevention - NHTSA
Speeding-related deaths in 2022. Source. 52%. Speeding passenger vehicle drivers in ... Economic implications of a speed-related crash; and; Increased fuel ...
Learn about the dangers of speeding and several factors of aggressive driving. Also learn how to deal with speeding and aggressive drivers.
17. Climate change - World Health Organization (WHO)
Oct 12, 2023 · The WHO conservatively projects 250 000 additional yearly deaths by the 2030s due to climate change impacts on diseases like malaria and coastal ...
WHO fact sheet on climate change and health: provides key facts, patterns of infection, measuring health effects and WHO response.
18. Mortality caused by tropical cyclones in the United States - Nature
Oct 2, 2024 · Tropical cyclones (TCs)—that is, hurricanes and tropical storms—are widespread globally and have lasting economic impacts, but their full health ...
Natural disasters trigger complex chains of events within human societies1. Immediate deaths and damage are directly observed after a disaster and are widely studied, but delayed downstream outcomes, indirectly caused by the disaster, are difficult to trace back to the initial event1,2. Tropical cyclones (TCs)—that is, hurricanes and tropical storms—are widespread globally and have lasting economic impacts3–5, but their full health impact remains unknown. Here we conduct a large-scale evaluation of long-term effects of TCs on human mortality in the contiguous United States (CONUS) for all TCs between 1930 and 2015. We observe a robust increase in excess mortality that persists for 15 years after each geophysical event. We estimate that the average TC generates 7,000–11,000 excess deaths, exceeding the average of 24 immediate deaths reported in government statistics6,7. Tracking the effects of 501 historical storms, we compute that the TC climate of CONUS imposes an undocumented mortality burden that explains a substantial fraction of the higher mortality rates along the Atlantic coast and is equal to roughly 3.2–5.1% of all deaths. These findings suggest that the TC climate, previously thought to be unimportant for broader public health outcomes, is a meaningful underlying driver for the distribution of mortality risk in CONUS, especially among infants (less than 1 year of age), people 1–44 years of age, and the Black population. Understandi...
