DEATHS FROM SUICIDE IN FINLAND FROM 2016 TO 2023
ABSTRACT Objectives: Suicides have been recorded in Finland since 1751, which forms the longest uninterrupted time series on this topic in the world. Suicide mortality has been decreasing in Finland since 1990. The first nationwide suicide prevention project was conducted from 1986 to 1996, durin...
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The Finnish Foundation for Psychiatric Research
2024-11-01
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| Series: | Psychiatria Fennica |
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| Online Access: | https://www.psykiatriantutkimussaatio.fi/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Psychiatria_Fennica%E2%94%ACa2024_Partonen_et_al.pdf |
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Objectives: Suicides have been recorded in Finland since 1751, which forms the longest uninterrupted time series on this topic
in the world. Suicide mortality has been decreasing in Finland since 1990. The first nationwide suicide prevention project
was conducted from 1986 to 1996, during which the age-standardized suicide mortality rate was decreased by 5.3%. The
second national suicide prevention programme was started in 2020. Materials and methods: As part of the monitoring of
the programme, we analysed the deaths from suicide in Finland from 2016 to 2023 using the database kept by the Forensic
Medicine Unit of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. Results: There were 6132 deaths from suicide, of which 4602
among men and 1530 among women. Two-thirds (62%) of the individuals were between 30 to 69 years of age. The greatest
proportion of suicides by month occurred on the days of May. Suicide mortality by year was at its highest in 2017 and at its
lowest in 2020. In the districts corresponding to the six wellbeing services counties, where a development project for suicide
prevention work was conducted as part of the second national suicide prevention programme, the suicide mortality rate on
average was subsequently reduced to equal that in the rest of the country. |
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| ISSN: | 2489-6152 |