Production losses attributable to suicide deaths in European Union.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suicide is an important public health problem with multidimensional consequences for societies. One of the under-researched areas of suicide consequences are cross-country analyses of production losses associated with these deaths. The aim of this study was to estimate the production losses (indirect cost) of suicide deaths in 28 European Union states (EU-28) in 2015.

Methods

The study used societal perspective and human capital approach to investigate production losses due to suicide mortality at working age. Eurostat's data on the number of deaths was used to identify suicide mortality burden in terms of years of potential productive life lost. Labour and economic indicators were applied to proxy the discounted value of potential economic output lost. A one-way

SUBMITTER: Lyszczarz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8136218 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature