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- Title
Tendencias sociodemográficas en mortalidad por suicidio en la Región de Atacama, Chile, 2010-2017.
- Authors
Álvarez, Alejandra Vega; Gutiérrez, Ricardo Jorquera; Vergara, Douglas Veliz; Loayza, Karla Maya; Vargas, Aníbal Cornejo; Muñoz, Karin Carvajal
- Abstract
Suicide is a major global, national, and regional public health problem. The present investigation sought to characterise the suicidal population of the Atacama Region between 2010-2017. It also describes the cases with previous attempts detected by the Health System. The analysis is based on 266 registered cases classified as suicides by the Legal Medical Service in the studied period. The annual regional and city rates are described, and the cases are compared by gender, age, cause of death, marital status, work activity, nationality, date of death and presence of substances. The behaviour observed is similar to the national one, which reflects evidence of a predominance of single men with an average age of 38.8 years, of different trades, who preferably used hanging. The study underscores the occurrence of suicides in the period October-January. The study raises the need to go deep into this problem, considering socio-environmental variables to explain the detected differences between cities and analysing the local data to favour prevention.
- Subjects
CAUSES of death; CITIES &; towns; MARITAL status; SUICIDE; LEGAL services; SUICIDE victims
- Publication
Summa Psicológica UST, 2022, Vol 19, Issue 2, p77
- ISSN
0718-0446
- Publication type
Article