ArticleInternational journal of circumpolar health2015
Time trend by region of suicides and suicidal thoughts among Greenland Inuit.
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- A systematic review on risk and protective factors for suicide and suicidal behaviour among Greenland Inuit.International journal of circumpolar health · 2023Pooled it
- The Epidemiology of Suicide in Young Men in Greenland: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
- Global incidence of suicide among Indigenous peoples: a systematic review.BMC medicine · 2018Pooled it
- Coping with suicidal crisis in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland): inuit youth lived experiences of recovery and protective processes - a qualitative pilot study.International journal of circumpolar health · 2026Article
- A protocol for collaborative research to understand protection, recovery, and resilience after youth suicide attempt in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).International journal of circumpolar health · 2026Article
- Childhood conditions and mental health among youth and young adults in Greenland: a latent class analysis.International journal of circumpolar health · 2024Article
- Increasing health inequality among Inuit in Greenland from 1993 to 2018: Different patterns for household assets, urbanization and a sociocultural index as indicators of social position.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- The association between suicidal behaviour and violence, sexual abuse, and parental substance abuse among Sami and Greenlandic adolescents: the WBYG study and the NAAHS.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2023Article
- Suicide attempts among Greenlandic forensic psychiatric patients - prevalence and determinants.International journal of circumpolar health · 2022Article
- Suicide rates amongst individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds: A systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2022Article
- Socio-demographic, psychosocial and environmental factors associated with suicidal behaviour in Indigenous Sami and Greenlandic Inuit adolescents; the WBYG and NAAHS studies.International journal of circumpolar health · 2021Article
- Social determinants of dietary patterns, food basket costs and expenditure on alcohol and tobacco amongst Greenland Inuit.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
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- Exploring the potential roles of community-university partnerships in northern suicide prevention implementation research.International journal of circumpolar health · 2020Article
- Risk factors observed in health care system 6 months prior completed suicide.International journal of circumpolar health · 2019Article
- "If you do not birget [manage] then you don't belong here": a qualitative focus group study on the cultural meanings of suicide among Indigenous Sámi in arctic Norway.International journal of circumpolar health · 2019Article
- Measuring social inequality in health amongst indigenous peoples in the Arctic. A comparison of different indicators of social disparity among the Inuit in Greenland.SSM - population health · 2018Article
- Three lifestyle-related issues of major significance for public health among the Inuit in contemporary Greenland: a review of adverse childhood conditions, obesity, and smoking in a period of social transition.Public health reviews · 2018Review
- Suicide Rates in Aboriginal Communities in Labrador, Canada.American journal of public health · 2016Article
- "We are like lemmings": making sense of the cultural meaning(s) of suicide among the indigenous Sami in Sweden.International journal of circumpolar health · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundSuicides remain a major public health problem in Greenland. Their increase coincides with the modernization since 1950. Serious suicidal thoughts are reported by a significant proportion of participants in countrywide surveys.
objectiveTo analyze the time trend by region of suicides and suicidal thoughts among the Inuit in Greenland.
designData included the Greenland registry of causes of death for 1970-2011 and 2 cross-sectional health surveys carried out in 1993-1994 and 2005-2010 with 1,580 and 3,102 Inuit participants, respectively.
resultsSuicide rates were higher among men than women while the prevalence of suicidal thoughts was higher among women. Suicide rates for men and women together increased from 1960 to 1980 and have remained around 100 per 100,000 person-years since then. The regional pattern of time trend for suicide rates varied with an early peak in the capital, a continued increase to very high rates in remote East and North Greenland and a slow increase in villages relative to towns on the West Coast. Suicidal thoughts followed the regional pattern for completed suicides. Especially for women there was a noticeable increasing trend in the villages. The relative risk for suicide was highest among those who reported suicidal thoughts, but most suicides happened outside this high-risk group.
conclusionSuicide rates and the prevalence of suicidal thoughts remain high in Greenland but different regional trends point towards an increased marginalization between towns on the central West Coast, villages and East and North Greenland. Different temporal patterns call for different regional strategies of prevention.
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