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Fig. 2 | BMC Psychiatry

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From: Changes in community mental health services availability and suicide mortality in the US: a retrospective study

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Between-State Associations between Community Mental Health Center Availability and Suicide Deaths per 100,000 Persons. NOTES Data were from 2014 to 2017 National Mental Health Services Survey (N-MHSS) to identify state-level community mental health center status during 2014–2017 and from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) data for suicide rates, identified as intentional self-harm by ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes U03, X60-X71, X72-X74, X75-X84, Y87.0. Each state’s coordinate represents its number of suicide deaths and community mental health centers per 100,000 persons in 2017. The unweighted fitted line was from unadjusted linear regression, giving each state equal weight, while population-weighted fitted line was from population-weighted linear regression, accounting for state population in 2017. A Community Mental Health Center included self-identified community mental health centers and partial hospitalization/day treatment facilities; a community mental health center was defined as a facility that provided any of the following services: 1) outpatient services, 2) 24-h emergency care services, 3) day treatment or other partial hospitalization services, or psychosocial rehabilitation services, and 4) screening for inpatient services to state mental health facilities, and that met applicable licensing or certification requirements for community mental health centers in a state where it is located [7]

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