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Robinson: Palo Alto Has the Highest Teenage Suicide Rate in the US

Adam Robinson · #47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1) · Dec 11, 2018 · at 19:00

Investor Adam Robinson contrasts material wealth with mental health and subjective well-being in tech hubs.

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“Of all the cities in the United States, the one with the highest teenage suicide rate is Palo Alto, which is tax central, right?”

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The claim, plainly

Of all cities in the United States, Palo Alto has the highest teenage suicide rate.

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Assessment

The claim that Palo Alto has the highest teenage suicide rate of all cities in the United States is false. It stems from a widespread conflation of a March 2017 CDC Epi-Aid investigation (Epi-Aid 2016-018), which found that Palo Alto had the highest youth suicide rate (14.1 per 100,000) among municipalities within Santa Clara County between 2003 and 2015. Nationally, youth suicide rates across numerous rural municipalities, Mountain West jurisdictions, and American Indian/Alaska Native reservations regularly exceed 20 to 40+ per 100,000. Neither CDC mortality data nor epidemiological literature supports the claim that Palo Alto held the highest teenage suicide rate among all U.S. cities as of 2018.

The March 2017 CDC Epi-Aid final report established that Palo Alto's youth suicide rate (14.1 per 100,000) was the highest within Santa Clara County, not nationwide.
Santa Clara County's overall youth suicide rate (5.4 per 100,000) was below the national average (7.4 to 8.0 per 100,000).
CDC Wonder and National Center for Health Statistics mortality data document adolescent suicide rates exceeding 20 to 40+ per 100,000 in various rural and Mountain West regions of the United States.

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[1] stanforddaily.com [2] chconline.org [3] researchgate.net [4] morganhilltimes.com [5] gavilan.edu [6] stanford.edu [7] washingtonpost.com [8] thekimfoundation.org

CDC Epi-Aid Santa Clara County youth suicide rate "Palo Alto" teenage suicide rate highest CDC "highest youth suicide rate" "Palo Alto" CDC Palo Alto youth suicide rate 4-5 times national average "14.1 per 100,000" "Santa Clara County" "Palo Alto"

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