Suicide—A Challenge in Modern Greenland
作者： Peter Bjerregaard , Inge Lynge
DOI: 10.1080/13811110600558265
关键词:
摘要: The incidence of youth suicides has increased dramatically among the Inuit in Greenland since modernization started 1950s. Suicides currently peak at age 15–24 Men: 400–500, Women: 100–150 per 100,000 person-years. methods are drastic: shooting or hanging. An early was seen capital, a later rest West Greenland, and high increasing rates remote East Greenland. Suicidal thoughts occur more often young people who grew up homes with poor emotional environment, alcohol problems violence. There is definite correlation several aspects process but it hard to pinpoint causal relationships. It rather “modernization package” that should be regarded as risk factors for suicides.
core.ac.uk
sci-hub.se 参考文章(16)
J. Thorslund, J. Misfeldt, On suicide statistics. Arctic medical research. ,vol. 48, pp. 124- 130 ,(1989)
Claude McKay, A long way from home ,(1937)
Thorslund J, Inuit suicides in Greenland. Arctic medical research. ,vol. 49, pp. 25- 33 ,(1990)
Peter Bjerregaard, Tine Curtis, Cultural change and mental health in Greenland: the association of childhood conditions, language, and urbanization with mental health and suicidal thoughts among the Inuit of Greenland Social Science & Medicine. ,vol. 54, pp. 33- 48 ,(2002) , 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00005-3
Ernest Hunter, Desley Harvey, Indigenous suicide in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Emergency Medicine Australasia. ,vol. 14, pp. 14- 23 ,(2002) , 10.1046/J.1442-2026.2002.00281.X
O. Grove, J. Lynge, Suicide and attempted suicide in Greenland. A controlled study in Nuuk (Godthaab). Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. ,vol. 60, pp. 375- 391 ,(1979) , 10.1111/J.1600-0447.1979.TB00286.X
Karin Sparring Björkstén, Peter Bjerregaard, Daniel F. Kripke, Suicides in the midnight sun—a study of seasonality in suicides in West Greenland Psychiatry Research-neuroimaging. ,vol. 133, pp. 205- 213 ,(2005) , 10.1016/J.PSYCHRES.2004.12.002
Laurence J. Kirmayer, Sheila Spreng, Stephen Hodgins, Michael Malus, Lucy J. Boothroyd, Completed suicides among the Inuit of northern Quebec, 1982–1996: a case–control study Canadian Medical Association Journal. ,vol. 165, pp. 749- 755 ,(2001)
Laurence J. Kirmayer, Suicide among Canadian Aboriginal peoples. Transcultural Psychiatry. ,vol. 31, pp. 3- 58 ,(1994) , 10.1177/136346159403100101
Briggs Jl, Socialization, family conflicts and responses to culture change among Canadian Inuit. Arctic medical research. ,vol. 40, pp. 40- 52 ,(1985)