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HISPANIC SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE RATES: ARE THEY ASSOCIATED WITH NON-HISPANIC SUICIDE & HOMICIDE RATES ?. F. Stephen Bridges, Ed.D . Professor of Community Health Education Department of Health, Leisure, and Exercise Science The University of West Florida. Presentation objectives.

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  1. HISPANIC SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE RATES: ARE THEY ASSOCIATED WITH NON-HISPANIC SUICIDE & HOMICIDE RATES? F. Stephen Bridges, Ed.D.Professor of Community Health EducationDepartment of Health, Leisure, and Exercise ScienceThe University of West Florida

  2. Presentation objectives • Introduction • Purpose of the study • Methods Data source • Results • Summary • Future research • References

  3. Introduction • Hispanic communities bear a disproportionate share of violence-related death and injury compared with the general population (Sorlie, Backlund, Johnson, & Rogot, 1993). • “Since the environmental, vehicle, and host risk factors for Latino violent injuries are complex and multifaceted, multiple points where preventive efforts could be applied need to be identified” (Rodriguez & Brindis, 1995, p. 262).

  4. Hispanic and Latino Americans (Wikipedia) • Hispanic or Latino Americans are Americans with origins in the countries of Latin America and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino. While the two terms are sometimes used interchangeably, "Hispanic" is a narrower term which only refers to persons of Spanish-speaking origin or ancestry, while "Latino" is more frequently used to refer more generally to anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry, including Brazilians. • Reflecting especially the Latin American population, which has origins in all the continents and many ancestries Hispanic/Latino Americans are very racially diverse, and as a result form an ethnic category, rather than a race. The choice of name is associated with location: Hispanic and Latino Americans who reside in the eastern United States tend to prefer the term Hispanic, whereas those in the west usually prefer Latino.

  5. Purpose of study • To explorewhether Florida counties with high rates of personal violence for Hispanics also had high rates of personal violence, i.e., suicide & homicide, for Non-Hispanic residents.

  6. Data source • Florida Community Health Assessment Resource Tool Set (CHARTS; http://www.floridacharts.com/charts/chart.aspx). • CHARTS Death Indicator Viewer • Displays death data for over 80 causes of death by age, race, ethnicity, and gender. • Age-adjusted rates for suicide and homicide were employed for each ethnic group. • More specifically, they were 3-year rolling death rates for the 2008 to 2010 time period.

  7. Study results • For 67 counties in Florida • Rates of suicide & homicide for Non-Hispanics was not associated with the suicide & homicide rates for Hispanics (Pearson rs= -0.12 & -0.08, respectively).

  8. Study results • Only 33 Florida counties had Hispanic populations over 10,000 in 2008. • For this restricted sample of counties the rates of personal violence for Hispanics and for Non-Hispanic residents were still not associated (r = -0.10 for suicide and r = 0.26 for homicide).

  9. Summary • The 2008-2010 rates of suicide and homicide for Florida Hispanics by county (67 or 33 counties) were not associated with the rates of suicide and homicide for Non-Hispanics. • Thus, FL counties with high rates of suicide or homicide for Non-Hispanics did not have high rates of suicide or homicide for Hispanics.

  10. Future research might determine if rates of personal violence for Hispanics respond to the same mediating variables*as the rates of personal violence for the Non-Hispanic population, although less strongly or not at all (Shetgiri, Kataoka, Ryan, Askew, Chung, & Schuster, 2009). *For example, religious factors, i.e., Catholicism within the Hispanic/Latino/Latina community may affect thinking & operate to hold some marriages together, even when they are violent. Future Research

  11. references • References • Rodriguez, M. A., & Brindis, C. D. (1995) Violence and Latino youth: prevention and methodological issues. Public Health Reports, 110(3), 260-267. • Shetgiri, R., Kataoka, S, Ryan, G. W., Askew, L. M., Chung, P. J., & Schuster, M. A. (2009) Risk and Resilience in Latinos: a community-based participatory research study. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 37(6), S217-S224. • Sorlie, P., Backlund, E., Johnson, N., & Rogot, E. (1993) Mortality by Hispanic status in the United States. Journal of the American Medical Association, 270, 2464-3468.

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