Urgent need for government and social policies to prevent suicide in Brazil

Alves, Verônica de Medeiros; Nardi, Antônio Egídio

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“…However, in Brazil, the suicide rate had increased from 2012 to 2016 by 19.6% for women and 9.8% for men. The spike in rates among women is a concern (Alves & Nardi, 2020).…”

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A descriptive mapping review of suicide in vulnerable populations in low and middle countries

Vijayakumar

Ray

Fernandes

et al. 2021

Asia-Pacific Psychiatry

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Introduction In 2016, low‐and‐middle income countries (LMICs) accounted for 79% of the global suicide deaths. In LMICs, vulnerable groups—women, sexual minorities and refugees, and internally displaced persons (IDPs)—are at high risk of suicidal ideation, attempts and deaths by suicide, but information for designing targeted interventions for them is fragmented and missing, making it difficult to address gaps in the existing system. This review highlights these gaps by mapping: (a) risk factors associated with suicides and suicidal behavior including challenges in implementing targeted programmes for vulnerable groups; and (b) recommendations for effective suicide prevention interventions and strategies in LMICs as documented in the literature. Methods A descriptive mapping review of literature was conducted. Three electronic databases—PubMed, Google Scholar, and Refworld—were searched for specific keywords. The researchers mapped and reviewed 34 studies on suicide and suicide prevention across three main vulnerable groups. Results This review highlighted the need for gender‐specific interventions for women and sexual minorities, addressing gender‐based discrimination, access to healthcare, abuse and violence, while for refugees and IDPs, critical concerns are monitoring and understanding suicidal behaviors and to address psychological and emotional responses to resettlement. Conclusion In LMICs, specific and unique socio‐cultural and environmental factors may increase the risk of vulnerable groups to suicidal behaviors. In order to develop effective and comprehensive suicide prevention strategies, it is crucial to evaluate these differential risk factors and develop culturally appropriate and sensitive interventions and strategies.

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“…However, in Brazil, the suicide rate had increased from 2012 to 2016 by 19.6% for women and 9.8% for men. The spike in rates among women is a concern (Alves & Nardi, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

A descriptive mapping review of suicide in vulnerable populations in low and middle countries

Vijayakumar

Ray

Fernandes

et al. 2021

Asia-Pacific Psychiatry

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“…Suicide Mortality Rate in Brazil. In Brazil, income inequality , mental disorders (Cho et al, 2016;Alves and Nardi, 2020) physical illness, alcohol abuse, financial loss, chronic pain, loss of loved ones, family history (Fegg et al, 2016) are the major causes of suicide among the individual risk factors. Jaen-Varas et al (2019) findings suggest that socioeconomic indicators, particularly unemployment and social inequality, are the main reasons of suicide in adolescence.…”

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How Healthy He and She: A Gender-Specific Study of Suicide Mortality in BRICS Countries

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2022

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Suicide shows high rates of psychological distress and early warning signs of an increase in mental health disorders. To understand the situation of suicide mortality the present study focuses on gender-based suicide mortality in BRICS countries from 2005 to 2019. The paper tries to assess the extent of suicide mortality in general and gender-specific suicide mortality in particular in all the five countries of BRICS. It explores the reasons for high male suicide mortality in Russia and South Africa. It also looks at the reasons for the recent increase in female suicide mortality in India and decreasing female suicide mortality in the Russian Federation. The paper tries to understand the reasons for reduced male suicide mortality in China. It analyses three areas such as sectoral employment, urban population and self-employment to examine whether suicide mortality has any relation to these factors in these five countries. The paper presents a vision for the generation of better employment opportunities and from narrow biomedical approaches to community-oriented psychosocial perspectives, in setting priorities for interventions and research to solve the problems related to mental health disorder which leads to suicide-based mortality. It will focus on the implementation of WHO guidance, and deployment of digital platforms, to address mental health issues to reduce the incidences of suicidal mortality. The paper examines the SDG's impact from the perspective that it tries to look at SDG's goal 3 in the context of BRICS countries and draws the attention of the policymakers, scholars, and academia toward the serious issue of suicide mortality.

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“…The prospect of suicidal action is multifactorial and comprises biological, psychiatric, psychosocial, and cultural risk issues [2][3][4][5] . Suicidal behaviors (SBs) include suicidal ideation and attempted and completed suicide.…”

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“…Suicidal behaviors (SBs) include suicidal ideation and attempted and completed suicide. The main factors associated with suicide include mental illness, behavioral genetics, family history of suicide, unsuccessful suicide attempts, lack of social support, stressful events, and sociodemographic characteristics, particularly poverty, unemployment, and low education levels [2][3][4][5][6][7] . Additionally, the presence of chronic diseases, such as AIDS, stroke, myocardial infarction, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, and chronic respiratory failure of various etiologies, are considered risk factors.…”

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Suicide cases in developed and emerging countries: an analysis using wavelets

Ferreira

Lima

Morais

et al. 2021

J. bras. psiquiatr.

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Objective The aim of this study was to use a wavelet technique to determine whether the number of suicides is similar between developed and emerging countries. Methods Annual data were obtained from World Health Organization (WHO) reports from 1986 to 2015. Discrete nondecimated wavelet transform was used for the analysis, and the Daubechies wavelet function was applied with five-level decomposition. Regarding clustering, energy (variance) was used to analyze the clusters and visualize the clustering process. We constructed a dendrogram using the Mahalanobis distance. The number of groups was set using a specific function in the R program. Results The cluster analysis verified the formation of four groups as follows: Japan, the United States and Brazil were distinct and isolated groups, and other countries (Austria, Belgium, Chile, Israel, Mexico, Italy and the Netherlands) constituted a single group. Conclusion The methods utilized in this paper enabled a detailed verification of countries with similar behaviors despite very distinct socioeconomic, geographic and climate characteristics.

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Urgent need for government and social policies to prevent suicide in Brazil

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A descriptive mapping review of suicide in vulnerable populations in low and middle countries

A descriptive mapping review of suicide in vulnerable populations in low and middle countries

How Healthy He and She: A Gender-Specific Study of Suicide Mortality in BRICS Countries

Suicide cases in developed and emerging countries: an analysis using wavelets

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