Comparison of Suicide Rates Among Asian Americans in 2000 and 2010

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ID13629221
AuthorsYusuke Kuroki (Office of Institutional Research, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume77
Issue4
Pages404-411
Publication date2016-11-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0030222816678425
PMID30035705
OpenAlexW2582934725
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited11

This brief report used the mortality data to separately examine suicide rates of the six largest Asian American groups: Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. In 2000, Japanese American men (13.8 per 100,000) showed significantly higher suicide rate than Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese American men (7.3, 4.0, and 6.1 per 100,000), whereas Chinese, Korean, and Japanese women (3.7, 3.9, and 4.3 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than Indian women (1.2 per 100,000). In 2010, Korean and Japanese American men (19.9 and 15.7 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than men of other Asian groups. Korean and Japanese American women (8.1 and 5.0 per 100,000) showed higher suicide rates than Indian and Filipino American women (1.5 and 1.8 per 100,000). The findings challenge the notion that Asian Americans are at low risk for suicide and underscore the importance of examining ethnic variation in suicide behaviors among Asian Americans

Asian americans · Asian Indian · Chinese americans · Ethnic group · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Population · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Suicide rates · Vietnamese · Demography · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies

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