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Study on Men’s Health and Suicide by Men covers a broad range of research on men’s health and wellbeing. What causes men to die young or cut short their lives? How do false cases which the Supreme Court of India has called “legal terrorism”, daily abuse and harassment by women against her male partner by using “women-centric” laws in India affect men’s mental health. This report is not a comprehensive review of the available literature but provides a broad overview of the topic. It is an effort to highlight the plight of men who are neglected by international organizations as well as government bodies within India. The exact numbers of such cases of suicide are difficult to assess as the majority of cases go unreported. It is even tougher to figure out with exactitude how many men are suffering because of “legal terrorism”. Worldwide around 800,000 people die due to suicide yearly, that’s one person every 40 seconds. Of these 1,39,123 (18%) are residents of India. 70% of suicides are by men, and is mostly due to depression because of marital discord, which is responsible for their death. The overall male to female ratio of suicide victims for the year 2019 was 70.2: 29.8, which is more as compared to the year 2018 (68.5: 31.5). Globally, the suicide rate for men is twice than of women, that’s 13.9 per 100,000 for men and 6.3 per 100,000 for women In India, the marital status of suicide victims is observed at 66.7% (92,757 out of 1,39,123) of the suicide victims were married, which shows there is a problem with their marriage and family. As per NCRB 2019 reports, there are two major causes of suicides i.e. ‘Family Problems’ and ‘Illness’. They also reported that Family problems and related issues were behind 32.4 percent of suicides, marriage related problems (5.5%), 70.2 were male and 29.8 females for every 100 suicide deaths. The NCRB collects national-level data from various sources. Almost 68.4 per cent of male victims were married. |
