Open AccessSuicide mortality in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, a predominantly indigenous Brazilian municipality
Author(s) -
Maximiliano Loiola Ponte de Souza,
Jesem Douglas Yamall Orellana
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
brazilian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1809-452X
pISSN - 1516-4446
DOI - 10.1016/s1516-4446(12)70007-7
Subject(s) - indigenous , demography , medicine , suicide prevention , suicide methods , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , poison control , suicide rates , mortality rate , geography , gerontology , environmental health , sociology , biology , ecology , pathology
To describe the characteristics and the raw suicide mortality rates (RSMR) during the period 2000-2007 in the municipality with the largest proportion of self-reported indigenous people in Brazil, São Gabriel da Cachoeira (SGC), State of Amazonas.