SUICIDE IN OLDER BLACK AND MINORITY ETHNIC PEOPLE: A CAUSE FOR CONCERN Professor
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The reference to ethnicity in the 2012 National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England (1) is mainly with regard to promoting mental health in Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups. However, there is little detailed information about any specific strategy to reduce suicide rates in BME groups. The Suicide Prevention Strategy and Action Plan for Northern Ireland has only one brief reference relative to BME groups: “to ensure appropriate support services reach out to all marginalised and disadvantaged groups” (2). There is no reference to BME groups in either the Scottish or the Welsh National Suicide Action Plans (3, 4). This lack of reference to BME groups in the United Kingdom (UK) suicide prevention strategies may have been due to paucity of epidemiological data on suicide in BME groups at the time the action plans were developed. Only six studies have examined suicides in older people from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME groups) in the United Kingdom (UK) (5-10). They have examined ageassociated trends (5,6,10) and trends over time (7), compared suicide rates with those born in England and Wales (5,6,7,9,10) and also compared with those in the country of origin (9), and the methods of suicide (9).
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