In the year 2020 new interventions with reghards to Suicide Assistance in the United States was established with the implementation and publication of emergency Hot Line ( 988) to address Psychosocial and Behavioral crisis emergencies . The new Hotline three digit number was published and implemenmted into Public Health to shorten the length of time it takes for a person with Suicidal Ideation to recieve assistance and salvage there lives . Recently , however new statistics related to suicide ideation and suicide rates among certain clusters are bothj concerning and quit frankly paradoxical ; perticularly when new Hotline numbers had been implemented in the year 2020 .
Paradoxical because of the setting and population being identified in this Public Health Blogger . In a serial cross sectional analysis oerformed usingt a sample of 595,237 childbearing individuals one year prematernal and one year post maternal evaluation demonstrated an increase4 in suicide ideation from 0.1% in the year 2006 to 0.5% in the year 2017 . When the study began in the year 2006 there was a cohort of 2,700 persons identified as being pre or post maternal high risk whom demonstrated suicidal ideation ; by the year 2017 there were over 595,237 identified ( Admond et al , 2021) diagnosis of suicidality with co morbid bipolar or psychotic disorders increased from 6.9% per 100 individuals in 2007 to 16.9% per 100 individuals in 2017 . This increase wer found in non- hipanics, black individuals , low income individuals, and younger individuials .
There has also been an increase in suicidal ideation among women between the age of 21- 35 and suicide is now increasing among antipartum and post partum females . This is a parodox because at this developmental stage in the females life she is in ReProductive stage not the Extinction of the ReProducer..
Public Health Intervention
It is obviouse that further public health interventions are necessary to prevent further increase of suicide and suicide ideation among reproductive age females . 988 was not appropriately marketed in thye Unitede States . It is still a viabloe avenue to channel this type of situiation . I propose implementing commercials and providing a preventative marketing ccampaign in the particular settings related to this age group such as Colleges , Transportation , and WIC programs .
References
Admond,L.K: Dalton,V.K: Kolenic, G.B (2021) Trends in Suicidalioty One Year Befor and After Birth Among Commercially Insured Childbearing Individuals in the United States , 2006-2017. JAMA .
CDC (2021) Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System . Centers for Disease Contyrol .
