Two decades after the U.S. farm crisis, the suicide rate among American farmers remains much higher than among other workers, a new study finds.
"Occupational factors such as poor access to quality health care, isolation and financial stress interact with life factors to continue to place farmers at a disproportionately high risk for suicide," said study co-author Corinne Peek-Asa. She is a professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa College of Public Health.
Peek-Asa and her colleagues found that 230 U.S. farmers died by suicide between 1992 and 2010.
The annual suicide rate among farmers ranged between 0.36 and 0.95 per 100,000 during those years, according to the study.
Meanwhile, the highest annual suicide rate for all other occupations during that time never exceeded 0.19 per 100,000, the researchers said.
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