Contextual factors associated with country-level suicide mortality in the Americas, 2000-2019: a cross-sectional ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The suicide mortality rate in the Region of the Americas has been increasing, while decreasing in all other World Health Organization regions; highlighting the urgent need for enhanced prevention efforts. Gaining a better understanding of population-level contextual factors associated with suicide may aid such efforts. We aimed to evaluate the contextual factors associated with country-level, sex-specific suicide mortality rates in the Region of the Americas for 2000-2019.

Methods

Annual sex-specific age-standardized suicide mortality estimates were obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Estimates database. To investigate the sex-specific suicide mortality rate trend over time in the region, we performed joinpoint regression analysis. We t

SUBMITTER: Lange S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10122114 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature