title: [Suicide in ethnic and cultural minorities - a research on literature].
abstract: Suicide plays an important role in the history of civilization. For health, moral, cultural, social and psychological reasons it exhibits an impressive phenomenon all over the world. From a sociological point of wiev globalization leads to migration and enlarges ethnic minorities. Thus it influences the suicide risk of ethnicities - usually in different terms for both genders. Our review is based on data from a few countries. Found protective or risk factors refer to specific minorities and cannot implicitly be generalized. Poor methodological preciseness regards varying definitions of minority, ethnicitiy and immigrant as well as the heterogeneous description of interactions between minority and host country, of social inclusion and cultural peculiarities. On the other hand ethnic aspects involved in suicide are so relevant that they have to be explored as exactly as possible.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatrischer Dienst Bozen, Italien., giancarlo.giupponi@asbz.it
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giupponi
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Conca
authors.forename: Evelyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.forename: Hartmann
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hinterhuber
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pompili
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pycha
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009656:North America; D012307:Risk Factors; D012945:Social Values; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013405:Suicide / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data