Abstract: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 l… Show more
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