Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.
To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser.
Background and aim: The Nordic countries provide a suitable setting for comparing trends in suicide mortality. The aim of this report is to compare suicide trends by age, gender, region and methods in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden 1980 – 2009. Methods: Suicide statistics 1980 – 2009 were analyzed for men and women aged 15 years and above and the age group 15 – 24 years. Regional suicide rates in 2009 were presented in maps. Results: The suicide rates across the Nordic countries declined from 25 – 50 per 100,000 in 1980 to 20 – 36 in 2009 for men and from 9 – 26 in 1980 to 8 – 11 in 2009 for women. The rates in Finland were consistently higher than those of the other countries. A significant increase of suicides in young women in Finland and Norway and a lack of a decline among young women in Sweden were noted. The male – female ratio of suicide converged to approximately 3:1 across the region during the study period. Rural areas in Finland, Norway and Sweden saw the highest suicide rates, whereas the rates in the capital regions of Denmark, Norway and Sweden were lower than the respective national rates. Conclusions: We hold that the overall decline of suicide rates in the Nordic countries reflects the socio-economic development and stability of the region, including the well-functioning healthcare. The increasing rates in Finland and Norway and the unchanged rate in Sweden of suicide in young women are an alarming trend break that calls for continued monitoring.
1990 •
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of culturalal factors on the suicidality in a sparsely populated rural district in Sweden, where I worked as a general medical practitioner, for about 18 months in 1984-1986. Most previous studies of suicide take as their point of departure the comparison between group of persons who have committed or attempted suicide, and a group of persons who have not. Efforts are made to make the groups as similar as possible in other respects. While this method gives important clues to the differing factors between the groups, it usually does not take sufficient account of the cultural and situational circumstances/1. Nor does this method lead to a deeper understanding or analysis of the cultural forces and motives which can lie behind suicide. The method rests on the assumption that there are persons who are likely to commit suicide, and others who are not, and that is the difference between the groups which is of interest. Even if this is accepted, the strict separation of the groups must seriously be questioned with reference to the prevalence of suicidal thoughts in a population and the difficulty in analyzing the statistics for attempted suicides but also for completed suicides. By picking out one person from a population and one act from a broad range of cultural behaviours the analysis tends to focus on individual and psychological factors, while the role of culture and society in shaping suicidal behavior is correspondingly underrepresented. The district, where I worked, had a suicide rate, which had, since 1970, been 2-3 times higher than that of the country, the county and the whole commune, of which it was a part. Considering the statistics over a ten-year period, that meant about 50 per 100.000 inhabitants. Four fifths of the suicides were committed by men. The district had a somewhat different history from the rest of the commune. It was inhabited for the first time in modern history by Finns, who were invited by the Duke Karl, later King Karl IX, in the 16 th and 17 th centuries, to come and cultivate the large forests in the west of Sweden; while most other people in the region came earlier from the south, following the rivers. One question put was therefore, whether this special culture and history could have some importance for the high rate of suicide. Material and method To analyze that, I chosed to follow an anthropological tradition of studying societies through "participant observation". All the ways in which I came into contact with suicide, in ordinary conversation, case-histories told, descriptions and comments, medical records and statistics were deemed to be important, and were analyzed in relation to the culture generally.
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
A repetition–prediction study of European parasuicide populations: a summary of the first report from Part II of the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Parasuicide in co-operation with the EC Concerted Action on Attempted Suicide1997 •
International Journal of Epidemiology
Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Suicide Mortality Rates in Spain, 1959–19911996 •
Revista de Historia
Gonzalez Cuerva Virreyes embajadores en el Consejo de Estado2023 •
Middle East Policy
Societal Factors Propelled Erdoğan to Victory Middle East Policy Council2023 •
I Linderoth, A. (ed.) Svenskt sjöförsvar 500 år – människor, politik & kulturarv, Marinmuseums årsbok, Marinmuseum: Karlskrona, 70-83.
Eriksson, N. 2022, Den gåtfulla brännarmodellen ö 24 – experiment, pedagogiskt hjälpmedel, eller kunglig leksak?2022 •
Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques
Compte-rendu : Vers une nouvelle théologie en islam. Pour une histoire polyphonique2024 •
TERCEIRO REICH: UMA BREVE ANÁLISE DO ORDENAMENTO JÚRIDICO DA ALEMANHA NACIONAL-SOCIALISTA
TERCEIRO REICH: UMA BREVE ANÁLISE DO ORDENAMENTO JÚRIDICO DA ALEMANHA NACIONAL-SOCIALISTA2019 •
arXiv (Cornell University)
SMP-PHAT: Lightweight DoA Estimation by Merging Microphone Pairs2022 •
2016 •
Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management
The Value of Destination Loyalty: Myth or Reality?2010 •
2018 •
Jurnal Kesehatan Tambusai
Gambaran Noise Pada Pemeriksaan CT-Scan Brain Menggunakan Protokol Fast Stroke2023 •
Proceedings of 41st International Conference on High Energy physics — PoS(ICHEP2022)
Global extraction of unpolarized quark TMDs at N3LL2022 •
2023 •
British Journal of Haematology
Induction of therapeutic levels of HbF in genome‐edited primary β039‐thalassaemia haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells2020 •
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Feasibility and acceptability of a midwife-led intervention programme called 'Eat Well Keep Active' to encourage a healthy lifestyle in pregnancy2012 •
Science and Technology Development Journal
Developing Expanded Powell’s Algorithm to Identify the Mathematical Model Parameters for Transesterification of Fish Fat Into Biodiesel Fuel2011 •