MedPage Today (10/12, Firth) reports “suicides jumped 29% among adolescents ages 15 to 19 during the pandemic compared with prior years, according to” a “new edition of America’s Health Rankings Health of Women and Children Report from the United Health Foundation” that “captures 121 health measures based on the most recently available public health data from 30 different sources.” In addition, the report “captured trends related to women’s health,” finding that “across the country, the share of women reporting ‘frequent mental distress’ rose from 17% in 2017-2018 to 19.4% in 2019-2020 – an increase of 14%, or more than 1.2 million women.”
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