Two-century trend of Army suicide decrease during war reversed in past two decades

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(Reuters Health) - While army suicides have historically decreased during wartime, that trend appears to have reversed in recent decades, a new ...

- While army suicides have historically decreased during wartime, that trend appears to have reversed in recent decades, a new study of U.S. records finds.

While the military suicide rate was markedly higher in the 1800s than today, it reached an all-time low just after World War II."Then remained at a low level until this period of open-ended wars," Smith said."We're hoping in follow-up studies to parse out the chronic and acute factors that cause military suicide."

"It's interesting to note," Smith said,"the military didn't take much in the way of active measures to decrease the number of suicides until World War II."

 

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