By Katie Devereaux | Arizona Daily Sun
(Editor’s note:This week is National Suicide Prevention Week. This story is a response in Coconino County)
On average, one Coconino County resident committed suicide every two weeks between 2010 and 2016.
This statistic, along with others that lend themselves to the critical suicide problem within in the county, comes from a 2017 Coconino County Public Health Services District report.
The report, Suicide in Coconino County 2017: An Overview of Suicide Trends from 2010-2016, is based primarily on death certificates and hospital records, and shows that at a rate of 25.4, Coconino County’s suicide rate is higher than that of Arizona’s 13.3 the United States’ 18.2.
While the rates in Coconino County are high, the county comes in at No. 7 in the state, with Yavapai, Mohave and Gila counties leading the 15 Arizona counties.
