Reflection Prompt # 4 Veterans support and

Reflection Prompt # 4 Veterans support and protect Americans and others all the over the world against chemical, biological, and human threats to safety and peace. Read the attached brief article and reflect on the thoughts or feelings evoked about the suicide rate of veterans in the United States. Write three paragraph to explan it . Analysis Finds About 20 Veterans Died Daily from Suicide Between 2001 and 2014 The VA is launching aggressive measures aimed atprevention. T he U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has releasedits most compre- hensive report to date on veteran suicide, revealing that veterans have a 21% greater risk of com- mittingsuicide than civilians, after adjustment for age and gender. Researchers analyzed over 55 mil- lion records from all 50 states for the period 1979 to 2014, but con- centrated on records from 2001 to 2014. Among their findings: • From 2011 to 2014, 20 veter- ans, on average, died from sui- cide daily. • Although veterans 50 years of age and older made up 65% of veteran suicides in 2014, veterans ages 18 to 29 experi- enced the highest suicide rate. • In 2014, veteransconstituted 8.5% of the U.S. population but represented 18% of adult suicides.In 2001, those figures were 12.3% and 23.1%, re- President Barack Obama signs the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, which calls for evaluation of existing VA mental health and suicideprevention programs and expands the reach of these programs for veterans, February 12, 2015, at the White House. Photo © Associated Pre spectively. • In 2014, female veterans had an age-adjusted suicide rate 2.4 times higher than adult ci- vilian women. To combat the rising suicide toll, the VA has launched aggressive prevention measures,including expanded use of telemental and phone health services,establish- ment of a toll-free crisis hotline, improved staffingand case man- agement, use of predictive mod- els to identify at-risk veterans in need of early intervention, and new partnerships with community- based mental health organizations. Achieving the goal of enhanced access to care may prove challeng- ing for the VA. Of an estimated 21.6 million U.S. veterans,only

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