Disparities in suicide mortality trends between United States of America ă and 25 European countries: retrospective analysis of WHO mortality ă database

Guillaume Fond (), Pierre-Michel Llorca (), Mohamed Boucekine, Xavier Zendjidjian, Lore Brunel, Christophe Lançon (), Pascal Auquier () and Laurent Boyer ()
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Guillaume Fond: INSERM U955, équipe 15 - Service de psychiatrie - AP-HP - Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) - Hôpital Henri Mondor - Hôpital Albert Chenevier - Réseau de coopération scientifique en santé mentale - Fondation FondaMental [Créteil] - IMRB - Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12
Pierre-Michel Llorca: Service Psychiatrie Adulte [CHU Clermont-Ferrand] - CHU Gabriel Montpied [Clermont-Ferrand] - CHU Clermont-Ferrand - Pôle Psychiatrie Enfant-Adulte [CHU Clermont-Ferrand] - CHU Clermont-Ferrand - CHU Gabriel Montpied [Clermont-Ferrand] - CHU Clermont-Ferrand
Mohamed Boucekine: SPMC - Santé Publique et maladies Chroniques : Qualité de vie Concepts, Usages et Limites, Déterminants - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - APHM - Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille
Christophe Lançon: Hôpitaux Sud - Département Universitaire de Psychiatrie - [Hôpital Sainte Marguerite - APHM] - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - APHM - Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille - Hôpitaux Sud - Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite [CHU - APHM]
Pascal Auquier: SPMC - Santé Publique et maladies Chroniques : Qualité de vie Concepts, Usages et Limites, Déterminants - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - APHM - Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille
Laurent Boyer: CEReSS - Centre d'études et de recherche sur les services de santé et la qualité de vie - AMU - Aix Marseille Université

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Abstract: The objective was to examine changes in temporal trends in suicide ă mortality in 26 Western countries by retrospective trend analysis of the ă WHO mortality database on causes of deaths. From 1990 to 2010, there was ă a median reduction in suicide mortality of 22.7%, ranging from a 46% ă reduction in Estonia to a 26.2% increase in Romania. Suicide mortality ă decreased by >= 20% in 15 countries, and the reduction tended to be ă greater in countries with higher mortality in 1990. In most of the ă central European countries mortality strongly declined. The median ă changes in the age groups were -25.3% (range -62.9% to 72.6%) in ă people aged 15-24 years, -36.9% (-60.5% to 32.4%) in 25-34 years, ă -3.6% (-57.1% to 92%) in 35-54 years, -12.2% (-37% to 65,7%) in ă 55-74 years and -16.1% (-54.5% to 166.7%) in >= 75 years. Suicide ă prevention programs in youths and in the elderly seem to be effective ă (at least in females for the elderly) and efforts should be pursued in ă this way. However, suicide mortality of the people aged 35-54 years has ă increased in half of the studied countries between 1990 and 2010. Public ă policies should further orientate their efforts toward this population.

Keywords: Quality of life; Epidemiology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02
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Published in Scientific Reports, 2016, 6, ⟨10.1038/srep20256⟩

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DOI: 10.1038/srep20256

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