OBJECTIVES This article examines suicide deaths among Canadians aged 10 or older between 1979 and 1998. It also examines hospital records for 1998/99 to provide some insight into suicide attempts. DATA SOURCES Data are mainly from the Vital Statistics Database, the Hospital Morbidity Database, and the Person-oriented Information Database. Supplementary data are from the Adult Correctional Ser...

background worldwide, suicide ranks among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years. an estimated 800000 people die by committing suicide annually. objectives to better understand the association between aggressive suicidal attempt and non-aggressive suicidal attempt in patients with suicide attempt in the emergency department. patients and methods a cross-sectional observa...

background: the current study aimed to test the hypothesis: is suicide predictable? and try to classify the predictive factors in multiple suicide attempts. methods: a cross-sectional study was administered to 223 multiple attempters, women who came to a medical poison centre after a suicide attempt. the participants were young, poor, and single. a logistic regression analiysis was used to clas...