Utah Women's Health Review
Older women are more at risk of experiencing depression than older men. Each year, approximately, 6 million adults, 65 years of age and older, suffer from depression, and only ten percent receive treatment for the condition …
Suicide is an unfortunate and potentially preventable public health issue. Men complete suicide with four times the frequency of women, but women attempt suicide three times more often than men …
The frequency of women completing suicide generally declines after the age of 60.1 However, older adults have the highest frequency of completed suicides in the United States …
In the United States, there are two distinct groups that constitute the fastest growing element of the incarcerated population: women and persons with mental illness …
Rape is the only violent crime in Utah with a rate that exceeds the national average. For 2005 the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program data shows a national rate for forcible rape of 31.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, while Utah specific data shows a rate of 37.3 per 100,000 inhabitants [1]. These data place Utah as …
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Recent statistics indicate that dating violence has increasingly become a problem in the United States …
Of all the baby girls born in 2001, 50% will live to be 100 years of age. Additionally, persons 80 years of age and older are the fastest growing population in our society, which raises concern because of the increasing problem of elder abuse …
Domestic violence is one of the most common crimes in the United States. Each year, 1.5 million women in the United States are physically assaulted by an intimate partner, and 10 million children will observe intimate partner violence in their families …
