Forecasting the impact of means restriction on the suicide mortality rate in the Region of the Americas: an ecological modeling study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The suicide mortality rate has been increasing in Region of the Americas, despite decreasing in all other World Health Organization (WHO) regions. Means restriction is an effective evidence-based intervention for suicide prevention. The objective of the current study was to estimate the impact of implementing national-level means restriction policies (i.e., firearm and pesticide restrictions) on the suicide mortality rate in the Region of the Americas.

Methods

In this ecological modeling study, two counterfactual scenarios were investigated using sex-specific suicide mortality data from the WHO Global Health Estimates database for 2000 to 2019. Forecasted sex-specific age-standardized suicide mortality rates were then estimated for each country for 2020 to 2030. C

SUBMITTER: Lange S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11372382 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature