These 5 Jobs Have the Highest Suicide Rates for Women - Article Health

A new government report highlights suicide rates among different occupations and found surprising differences between industries for both men and women. According to the most recent research, suicide rates are highest among men in construction and extraction industries, while they are highest among women working in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media.

The report also shows a 34% increase in suicides among the U.S. working-age population between 2000 and 2016, from 12.9 per 100,000 people to 17.3.

These statistics come from an analysis of 22,053 people in 17 states, ages 16 to 64, who died by suicide in either 2012 or 2015. Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grouped those deaths into 22 different industry categories and published their findings this week in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

the construction and extraction industry category had the highest suicide rates for men: 43.6 and 53.2 per 100,000 working persons, respectively. In 2015, the arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media category had the second highest suicide rate among men (and also the highest increase in suicides since 2012), while the installation, maintenance, and repair industry had the third highest.

For women, the highest-risk industry category in both 2012 and 2015 was arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media—with 11.7 and 15.6 suicides per 100,000, respectively. Protective services and health care support (which did not include health care practitioners and technical occupations) had the second and third highest suicide rates for women in 2015, while food preparation and serving-related occupations saw the highest increase since 2012.

Among both men and women, the lowest suicide rates in 2015 were observed among people in education, training, and library occupations.

In their new report, the CDC researchers point out that the workplace is an “important but underutilized” location for suicide prevention efforts, because it’s where many adults spend substantial amounts of time. “Workplaces could potentially benefit from suicide prevention activities,” the authors wrote, and tailored approaches might be necessary “to support workers at higher risk.”

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