Utah Addressing cultural issues that increase the risk of suicide

[Joe Link]

Intermountain Healthcare is addressing the rising suicide rate in Utah by helping clinicians discuss gun safety with their patients.

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[nmwabbit]

Again self-serving data is propagated, for example according to Table 17 (page 1 of 4). Age-adjusted death rates for selected causes of death, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin: United States, selected years 1950–2015 provided by CDC [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus16.pdf#page135]
All causes, all persons, suicide is 11th cause listed, 1950 = 13.2% and 2015 = 13.3%, lowest percentage is 2000 at 10.4%.

You may, at your leisure and boredom puruse the rest of the table for ethnicity, age, ad,nauseam causes of data, but across the board the suicide data is relatively level so I am not sure why UT has their panties in a knot at this stage of 68+ years of data?

Yes, the CDC is, if anything meticulous in their data collection and statistical analysis, but it seems there was a change in 1999 in the definition of ICD-10 cause of death coding criteria.