Suicide in indigenous and non-indigenous population: a contribution to health management.

Autor: Braga CMR; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Nogueira LMV; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Trindade LNM; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., Rodrigues ILA; Universidade do Estado do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil., André SR; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Silva IFSD; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., Paiva BL; Universidade Federal do Pará. Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Jazyk: English; Portuguese
Zdroj: Revista brasileira de enfermagem [Rev Bras Enferm] 2021 Jan 15; Vol. 73 (suppl 1), pp. e20200186. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jan 15 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0186
Abstrakt: Objective: To analyze the sociodemographic and epidemiological profile of suicide in the indigenous and non-indigenous population and the spatiality of the event.
Method: Epidemiological, descriptive research, carried out with data from the Mortality Information System. Suicide mortality rates were calculated for the 144 municipalities in Pará and linked to the geographic location values of the municipalities; subsequently, thematic maps were built using the QGIS 3.10.3 software. The association between variables was measured by the G test.
Results: 1,387 suicide records were studied, and the mortality rate among indigenous people was low in comparison to non-indigenous people, reaching 0.1/100 thousand inhabitants and 17.5/100 thousand inhabitants, respectively.
Conclusion: Suicide is heterogeneously distributed in the territory, with greater vulnerability of the indigenous people, which demands different policies considering their cultural diversity.
Databáze: MEDLINE