Title: Demographic Factors - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
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Demographic Factors
Demographic Factors
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Suicide and Self-Directed Violence
Demographic Factors
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Content: One cannot help but think of the remarkable resiliency of the Asian and African children who do survive childhood, given the overwhelming demographic factors they overcome. View chapter Purchase book
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Suicide and Self-Directed Violence
D. De Leo, K. Krysinska, in International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2008
Demographic Factors
Demographic factors, including gender, age, race, and ethnicity, provide a general indication of those groups in the general population that are at the highest risk of suicide. As indicated in almost all countries, the risk of suicide is greater among males than females, and globally for both genders the suicide risk increases with age. The prevalence of suicide also varies across racial and ethnic groups. In the United States, the prevalence of suicide among Caucasians is approximately twice that observed in all other races, and American Indian and Alaska Natives have the highest suicide rates of all ethnic groups in the country. In Australia, suicide among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has increased dramatically from low rates in the late 1980s to levels substantially higher among young indigenous males than among their nonindigenous counterparts (Hunter and Milroy 2006 ). For example, in Queensland, where a very accurate Suicide Register is in operation, the global rate of indigenous people is 24.6 per 100 000, which is almost twice as high as the general population rate of 15.0 per 100 000 in 2002–2004. The elevated suicide rates are particularly marked in the younger age groups: In 25- to 34-year-old males (108.0 per 100 000), the suicide rate was almost three times that of the Queensland rate (39.3 per 100 000).