VA Releases Report on Nation’s Largest Analysis of Veteran Suicide
Please take the time to read this article, a summary of the full 46-page report. The report is a comprehensive summary of suicide among service members who served in America’s armed forces in the last 15 years.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today released its findings from the nation’s most comprehensive analysis of Veteran suicide rates in the United States in which VA examined more than 55 million Veterans’ records from 1979 to 2014 from every state in the nation.
The effort advances VA’s knowledge from the previous report in 2012, which was primarily limited to information on Veterans who used VHA health services or from mortality records obtained directly from 20 states and approximately 3 million records.
Compared to the data from the 2012 report, which estimated the number of Veteran deaths by suicide to be 22 per day, the current analysis indicates that in 2014, an average of 20 Veterans a day died from suicide.
A link to the complete report may be found here.
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