Trends in Deaths of Despair by Race and Ethnicity From 1999 to 2022

JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 1;81(7):731-732. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0303.

Authors

Joseph Friedman^{1

2}, Helena Hansen^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Social Medicine and Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles.
² David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

PMID: 38598247
PMCID: PMC11007657 (available on 2025-04-10)
DOI: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0303

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines trends in deaths of despair by race and ethnicity from 1999 to 2022.

MeSH terms

American Indian or Alaska Native / statistics & numerical data
Black or African American / statistics & numerical data
Ethnicity* / statistics & numerical data
Female
Hispanic or Latino / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality / ethnology
Mortality / trends
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data
United States / epidemiology
White / statistics & numerical data