Open AccessStatistical Analysis of Factors Related to Suicide Records in the World Between 1985 and 2020
Author(s) -
João Pedro Barbosa de Almeida,
Matheus Carvalho Nascimento de Souza,
Yuri Papaterra Fonseca,
Felipe Emmanouil Martires Stamoglou,
Márcio Renê Brandão Soussa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of bioengineering and technology applied to health/journal of bioengineering and technology apllied for health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2674-8568
pISSN - 2595-2137
DOI - 10.34178/jbth.v4i4.179
Subject(s) - suicide rates , public health , demography , suicide prevention , psychology , medicine , environmental health , poison control , sociology , nursing
Suicide is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a public health problem that afflicts the whole society and it counts more deaths than many diseases. Therefore, the current objective is to analyze the suicide deaths between 1985 and 2020 and classify them according to the act. Through KNN, this study presents suicide cases grouped by sex (male and female) and associate them to factors by country, pointing out information that allows us to understand what influences the act the most directly or indirectly. The results showed that, unlike other researches, the rate of suicide does not have differences based on sex. However, further studies are needed.