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ArticleInternational journal for equity in health2018

Socio-demographic and economics factors associated with suicide mortality in Iran, 2001-2010: application of a decomposition model.

Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Giulia Rinaldi, Hossein Shahnavazi, Hamid Bouraghi, Aliasghar A Kiadaliri

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Article in International journal for equity in health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Hassan Haghparast-BidgoliInstitute for Global Health, University College London, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, UK. h.haghparast-bidgoli@ucl.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-6365-2944
Giulia RinaldiSt.George's University of London, London, UK.
Hossein ShahnavaziIranian Forensic Medicine Organization, Tehran, Iran.
Hamid BouraghiDepartment of Health Information Technology, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Aliasghar A KiadaliriDepartment of Clinical Sciences Lund, Orthopaedics, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Lund, Sweden.
Hamedan University of Medical Sciences · IRInstitute of Child Health · GRIranian Legal Medicine Organization · IRLund University · SESt George's, University of London · GB

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Abstract

backgroundSuicide is a major global health problem, especially among youth. Suicide is known to be associated with a variety of social, economic, political and religious factors, vary across geographical and cultural regions. The current study aimed to investigate the effects of socioeconomic factors on suicide mortality rate across different regions in Iran.

methodsThe data on distribution of population and socio-economic factors (such as unemployment rate, divorce rate, urbanization rate, average household expenditure etc.) at province level were obtained from the Statistical Centre of Iran and the National Organization for Civil Registration. The data on the annual number of deaths caused by suicide in each province was extracted from the published reports of the Iranian Forensic Medicine Organization. We used a decomposition model to distinguish between spatial and temporal variation in suicide mortality.

resultsThe average rate of suicide mortality was 5.5 per 100,000 population over the study period. Across the provinces (spatial variation), suicide mortality rate was positively associated with household expenditure and the proportion of people aged 15-24 and older than 65 years and was negatively associated with the proportion of literate people. Within the provinces (temporal variation), higher divorce rate was associated with higher suicide mortality. By excluding the outlier provinces, the results showed that in addition to the proportion of people aged 15-24 and older than 65, divorce and unemployment rates were also significant predictors of spatial variation in suicide mortality while divorce rate was associated with higher suicide mortality within provinces.

conclusionThe findings indicate that both spatial and temporal variations in suicide mortality rates across the provinces and over time are determined by a number of socio-economic factors. The study provides information that can be of importance in developing preventive strategies.

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Socioeconomic FactorsAdolescentAdultAgedDivorceFemaleHumansIranMaleMiddle AgedResidence CharacteristicsSuicideUnemploymentYoung AdultIranPanel dataSpatial analysisSuicide mortalityTemporal variation

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