https://www.nbcnews.com/health/mental-health/suicide-rates-are-rising-especially-rural-america-n1050806

"From 1999 to 2016, the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open. Rates among people living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than those in major metropolitan areas.

The presence of more gun shops was also associated with an increase in suicide rates in all counties, except for the most rural ones, the researchers reported.

The majority of those who killed themselves were male (349,082), and suicides were more common among middle-aged adults than younger and older adults.

Counties with the highest risk of suicide were in the West, including in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming; Appalachia, including counties in Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia; and the Ozarks, including counties in Arkansas and Missouri."

#geog203 #psychological #mappingpain

PJ-Related to course, but how to show rural geogrpahy?  can you focus it more?