Stan and Clarence revisit the topic of suicide with Stefan Gingerich. Stefan Gingerich - Senior Epidemiologist at the Minnesota Department of Health - has extensive knowledge of suicide rates and trends in Minnesota. They have been cited and quoted in countless articles, publications, and reports. Listen along as we take another look at this alarming topic. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988. Or find additional resources with live chat at 988lifeline.orgJoin the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships. More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on suicide and specifically, more specifically, the report that's recently come out in the state of Minnesota on the numbers that we're facing, which is unfortunately not happy, but hopefully we'll get a public health perspective on it from our illustrious guests. So stay tuned in a second here. We've got a great crew that...
drives our program logistically, research-wise, production-wise. We've got Maddie Levine-Wolfe and Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, all do our background research and give Clarence and I some semblance of order as far as talking points are concerned. We've got Matthew Campbell, who's our production manager,
puts together all the logistics for these shows and gets the shows out to you, the listening audience. Sheridan Nygaard is our marketing specialist and also helps on background research as well. My dearest of dear colleague, Clarence Jones, we've been having fun doing this.
We like to chat about health issues and hopefully we're getting some useful, honest, up-to-date information to you, the listening audience through our Health Chatter podcast venue. And then finally, I wanna recognize Human Partnership, who's our sponsor for this engagement, for all of our engagements. Wonderful community initiative that focuses on health for all of us.
And I encourage all of you to check out their website. You can check our website out as well as healthchatterpodcast.com. You can see their information and all the logistics for our shows, including on our website, we put our background research on there. and the sites that we've used in order for us to reflect on good questions for our guests that we have.
Today, we have a wonderful guest, a great colleague of mine, Stefan Gingrich from the Minnesota Department of Health, who's recently, it's only been like, what, less than a month or so that you got a report out on what's going on in the state of Minnesota.
And Clarence and I will reflect not only on that, but also how we compare, for instance, to other states nationally, and then also what's going on nationally as a whole around the issue of suicide, unfortunately, and suicide prevention. So today we have Stefan with us, senior epidemiologist at Minnesota Department of Health. He was previously at Stay Well Health Management,
He's done a variety of different publications in this arena, and most notably the one that you'll hear about today. He's got his background in epidemiology from the University of Iowa, the Hawkeye State, south of Minnesota. So welcome to you, Stefan, to Health Chatter.
Thank you. It's great to be here.
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