title: The historical development of suicide mortality in Russia, 1870-2007.
abstract: Russia has one of the highest suicide mortality rates in the world. This study investigates the development of Russian suicide mortality over a longer time period in order to provide a context within which the contemporary high level might be better understood. Annual sex- and age-specific suicide-mortality data for Russia for the period 1870-2007 were studied, where available. Russian suicide mortality increased 11-fold over the period. Trends in male and female suicide developed similarly, although male suicide rates were consistently much higher. From the 1990s suicide has increased in a relative sense among the young (15-34), while the high suicide mortality among middle-aged males has reduced. Changes in Russian suicide mortality over the study period may be attributable to modernization processes.
authors: a Södertörn University, Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST) , Huddinge , Sweden.
authors: Tanya
authors: T
authors: Jukkala
authors: Ilkka Henrik
authors: IH
authors: Mäkinen
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Stickley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012922:Social Change; D013405:Suicide / Q000639:trends*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Russia; history; modernization; suicide; time series