Professional Groups with the Highest Suicide Rates in the United States: Construction Workers, Artists, Chefs, and More

CDC researchers have analyzed data from 17 states in the United States to identify professional groups with the highest suicide rates. For male cases, they found that construction workers, carpenters, and masons in the “construction and mining” category had the highest suicide rate at 53.2 per person. For women, the job category with the highest suicide rate was “art, design,…