NHQRDR 2010 /T7_1_7-1

2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 7_1_7.1
Suicide deaths per 100,000 population,^a United States, 2004-2007
		2007		2006		2005		2004
Population group		Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE	Rate	SE
Total		11.3	0.1	10.9	0.1	10.9	0.1	10.9	0.1
Age	0-17	1.1	0.0	1.3	0.0	1.4	0.0	1.4	0.0
	18-44	13.7	0.1	13.3	0.1	13.2	0.1	13.5	0.1
	45-64	16.8	0.1	16.0	0.1	15.4	0.1	15.4	0.1
	65 and over	14.3	0.2	14.2	0.2	14.7	0.2	14.3	0.2
Race	AI/AN	11.5	0.6	11.6	0.6	11.7	0.6	12.2	0.6
	NHOPI	6.1	0.2	5.6	0.2	5.2	0.2	5.8	0.2
	Black	5.0	0.1	5.1	0.1	5.2	0.1	5.3	0.1
	White	12.5	0.1	12.1	0.1	12.0	0.1	12.0	0.1
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	6.0	0.1	5.3	0.1	5.6	0.1	5.9	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, all races	12.0	0.1	11.7	0.1	11.6	0.1	11.6	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	5.1	0.1	5.2	0.1	5.4	0.1	5.5	0.1
	Non-Hispanic, White	13.5	0.1	13.2	0.1	12.9	0.1	12.9	0.1
Gender	Male	18.4	0.1	18.0	0.1	18.0	0.1	18.0	0.1
Gender	Female	4.7	0.1	4.5	0.1	4.4	0.1	4.5	0.1
Education,^b ages 25-64	Less than high school	23.9	0.6	23.4	0.6	20.6	0.5	21.7	0.4
	High school graduate	23.7	0.3	22.3	0.3	21.5	0.3	21.5	0.3
	At least some college	10.5	0.2	10.0	0.2	10.2	0.1	10.6	0.1
Geographic location^c	Metropolitan	10.7	0.1	10.4	0.1	10.3	0.1	DNA	DNA
	Large central metro	9.7	0.1	9.4	0.1	9.5	0.1	9.6	0.1
	Large fringe metro	10.1	0.1	9.6	0.1	9.5	0.1	9.5	0.1
	Medium metro	12.0	0.1	11.7	0.1	11.4	0.1	11.5	0.1
	Small metro	13.1	0.2	12.8	0.2	12.8	0.2	12.4	0.2
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	13.4	0.2	13.7	0.2	13.3	0.2	13.2	0.2
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	14.7	0.3	13.9	0.3	14.2	0.3	14.8	0.3

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.� Age data are unadjusted. Respondents for which age is not reported are not included in the age adjustment calculations and are excluded from numerators.

^b Not all States reported education data.

^c For more information, see the National Vital Statistics System entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

DNA - Data have not been analyzed.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System - Mortality.

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: NHQRDR 2010 /T7_1_7-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/7_mentalhealthsubstanceabuse/T7_1_7-1.html