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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...

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,

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.

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.

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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.

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,

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.

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.

Yeah, thanks, thanks. So, all right. Suicide. You know, what Clarence and I do a lot of these shows, we talk about acute medical conditions, we talk about chronic medical conditions, but suicide kind of is a variable or a condition that's almost

Yeah, thanks, thanks. So, all right. Suicide. You know, what Clarence and I do a lot of these shows, we talk about acute medical conditions, we talk about chronic medical conditions, but suicide kind of is a variable or a condition that's almost

in a um a realm by itself so let's let's first and foremost let's just start out with all right what's going on in the state of Minnesota so go ahead Stefan reflect on on the report that that you've put out and tell us where we're at the trend that we're seeing how it's how it's reflected by maybe different races in the state, geographic variations, et cetera.