A new study from University of California, San Francisco demonstrates that the health status of young adults is far worse than that of teens, with mortality rates more than double due in part to increased rates of injury, homicide and suicide, according to a new analysis by UCSF adolescent medicine researchers. Among their findings:
• Young adults, defined as 18 to 24 year olds, have triple the suicide rate of adolescents, with young men’s suicide rate six times greater than that of young women, (approximately 19 versus 3 per 100,000).
• Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death for young adults, about 70 percent of which is attributable to motor vehicle accidents, with a high percentage of those involving alcohol use.
• Homicide rates peak in young adulthood. Young men’s homicide rate is six times higher than that of young women. Among all young men the rate is 27 per 100,000; for young women it is 4.6 per 100,000. It is 111 per 100,000 for young African American men.
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