Open AccessA regional profile of suicide in Queensland
Author(s) -
Cantor Christopher H.,
Slater Penelope J.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1326-0200
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1997.tb01680.x
Subject(s) - suicide rates , geography , socioeconomic status , peninsula , suicide prevention , demography , occupational safety and health , poison control , injury prevention , rural area , socioeconomics , medicine , environmental health , population , sociology , archaeology , pathology
A regional profile of suicide in Queensland follows on from earlier work which failed to find urban–rural differences in suicide rates. Suicide rates were higher in the north of the state and lower in the more developed south. Rural Queensland health regions displayed both the lowest (Darling Downs and Mackay) and the highest (Peninsula) suicide rates. Socioeconomic factors correlated with these differences in some regions. Suicide rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, especially the young, were high, and may have contributed to elevated suicide rates in northern Queensland, but the numbers were insufficient to account for observed differences.