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This month, states in New England will begin releasing annual data from their winter Point-in-Time counts, tallying the number of individuals who are experiencing homelessness.
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The latest data from Veterans Affairs shows Oklahoma’s veteran suicide rates are ‘significantly higher’ than that of both the national veteran and general population rates, which have both worsened in the past decade.
The data is age-adjusted to ensure that the differences in rates are not due to differences in the ages of the populations being compared.
The Oklahoma veteran suicide rate was 40.6 per 100,000, compared to 32 per 100,000 of veterans nationally. That rate was also significantly higher than Oklahoma s suicide rate of 25.6 per 100,000 or the natonal suicide rate of 18.4 per 100,000.
Firearms were also overwhelmingly the method used in Oklahoma veteran suicide deaths, with 74 percent compared to the national percentage of 51 percent.
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