| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Suicide by age, ethnic group, coroners' verdicts and country of birth
— a three-year survey in inner London | | Author(s) | Jan Neeleman, Vivienne Mak, Simon Wessely |
| Journal title | The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 171, no 5, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp 463-467 |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Ethnic groups ; Postmortems ; Age group distribution statistics ; London ; Lewisham ; Lambeth ; Southwark ; Greenwich. |
| Annotation | A survey of all unnatural deaths of residents in the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark and Greenwich was conducted from 1991 to 1993. `True likely' and `official' age-adjusted suicide rates were compared by ethnicity and, for whites, birthplace. Irrespective of verdict, 329 likely suicides were identified. Relatively few ethnic minority and white immigrant suicides had received a suicide verdict. Afro-Caribbeans had relatively low, and young Indian women relatively high suicide rates. Rates of Scottish- and Irish-born residents were 2.1 to 2.9 higher than the local base rate. Young white males' rates were higher than those of older men. The study concludes that classification of suicide is biased with respect to ethnicity and national origin. Rate patterns for ethnic minority groups reflect patterns seen in attempted suicide. In the deprived inner city areas considered, white male suicide rates have surpassed those among the old. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980521008 A |
| Classmark | EV: TK: JVP: S6: 82L: 82LO: 82LN: 82LT: 82LC |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|