Suicide in Lithuania

Gailienė, Danutė; Domanskiené, Vanda; Keturakis, Viktoras

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“…Urban suicide rates in Lithuania before 1940 were 4–5 times higher than rural. They equalized in late 1960s and became twice as high in rural areas during the last decades (34). Rural suicide rates in Latvia 1970–80 were 1.3 times higher than urban suicide rates.…”

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Major demographic, social and economic factors associated to suicide rates in Latvia 1980–98

Rancāns

Renberg

Jacobsson

2001

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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Major demographic, social and economic factors associated to suicide rates in Latvia 1980–98

Rancāns

Renberg

Jacobsson

2001

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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“…Lithuania represents a compelling case for studying suicide determinants due to its unique historical and contemporary context. The start of the male suicide epidemic in Lithuania can be traced back to the early 1960s, which also marked the onset of the overall mortality crisis in the former USSR ( Figure 1; Gailienė et al, 1995;Meslé, 2004;Jasilionis, Meslé, Shkolnikov, & Vallin, 2011). As in Russia, the peak in both all-cause mortality and suicide among men in Lithuania was in the mid-1990s (Gailienė, 2015).…”

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“…Many studies that have looked at the historical origins of the suicide epidemics among Lithuanian men pointed to a long-term increase in suicide mortality in rural areas (Gailienė, 2018;Gailienė et al, 1995). with heavy casualties (Gailienė, 2015).…”

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Individual and contextual determinants of male suicide in the post‐communist region: The case of Lithuania

Jasilionis

Grigoriev

Stumbrys

2020

Population Space and Place

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Over the three last decades, Lithuania has reported some of the highest male suicide rates in the world. This paper relies on longitudinal census-linked data for Lithuania covering the entire male population aged 30-64 years during the 2011-2017 period. The study uses multilevel modelling to examine the importance of the selected individual-and area-level contextual characteristics. One of the key findings is the persistence of a suicide disadvantage among males living in rural areas. This disadvantage could not be explained by major sociodemographic characteristics and remained statistically significant for those individuals who migrated to urban areas. Unlike some other studies, we found that socioeconomic area-level characteristics retained their significance after controlling for the major individual-level characteristics. This evidence highlights the potential for policies aimed at improving area-level conditions.

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“…Investigations of suicides were started in Lithuania only after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when information held in statistical bureaus became available to researchers. Since that time several studies on the epidemiology of suicides has been carried out in Lithuania, demonstrating time trends and some social and economic inequalities in suicide mortality (Kalediene, Vilkauskas, & Petrauskiene, 1997; Gailiene, Domanskiene, & Keturakis, 1995; Varnik, Tooding, Palo, & Wasserman, 2000; Varnik, Wasserman, & Eklund, 1994). The mortality rates gradually increased during the period of 1970–1985, with a decrease in 1986, and continued to increase again, especially from 1990 to 1994.…”

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Inequalities in Daily Variations of Deaths from Suicide in Lithuania: Identification of Possible Risk Factors

Kalèdiené

Petrauskienė

2004

Suicide & Life Threat Behav

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The aim of this study was to analyze daily variations in mortality from suicides of Lithuanian urban and rural populations in two different periods of economic and political development of the country (1988-1990 and 1998-2000). The highest proportion of suicides occurred on Mondays and during the first days after the major public holidays, especially in men. Suicide mortality in rural areas was significantly higher in comparison to urban; nevertheless, daily variation was more marked in urban areas. Developing market economy and rising unemployment did not increase daily variation in suicides.

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Suicide in Lithuania

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Major demographic, social and economic factors associated to suicide rates in Latvia 1980–98

Major demographic, social and economic factors associated to suicide rates in Latvia 1980–98

Individual and contextual determinants of male suicide in the post‐communist region: The case of Lithuania

Inequalities in Daily Variations of Deaths from Suicide in Lithuania: Identification of Possible Risk Factors

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Major demographic, social and economic factors associated to suicide rates in Latvia 1980–98

Major demographic, social and economic factors associated to suicide rates in Latvia 1980–98

Individual and contextual determinants of male suicide in the post‐communist region: The case of Lithuania

Inequalities in Daily Variations of Deaths from Suicide in Lithuania: Identification of Possible Risk Factors

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