{"id":3511,"date":"2014-11-18T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2014-11-18T11:29:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:29:03","slug":"self-harm-on-the-rise-among-girls-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/self-harm-on-the-rise-among-girls-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-harm on the rise among girls in Canada<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">New statistics about hospitalizations due to intentional injuries in children and youth aged 10 to 17\u00a0&#8211; including both assault and self-harm &#8211; show that self-inflicted injuries have risen significantly in the last five years, especially among girls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Over the past 5 years, the rate of intentional self-harm\u2013related hospitalizations in girls has increased by more than 110%, from 78 to 164 per 100,000 female youths<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Over the same period, the rate for boys has increased by more than 35%, from 23 to 32 per 100,000 male youths<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The number of boys hospitalized for intentional assault has decreased by more than 34% since 2009\u20132010, while the number of girls hospitalized for the same reason has increased by 22%.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>For more information or to obtain a copy of the data tables and public summaries please contact the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cihi.ca\/CIHI-ext-portal\/internet\/EN\/Home\/home\/cihi000001\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Institute for Health Information<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New statistics about hospitalizations due to intentional injuries in children and youth aged 10 to 17\u00a0&#8211; including both assault and self-harm &#8211; show that self-inflicted injuries have risen significantly in the last five years, especially among girls: Over the past 5 years, the rate of intentional self-harm\u2013related hospitalizations in girls has increased by more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[975,51,2208,2207,1000,476],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-children","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-hospitals","tag-mental-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-UD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}