title: International comparison of death place for suicide; a population-level eight country death certificate study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The places of death for people who died of suicide were compared across eight countries and socio-demographic factors associated with home suicide deaths identified.
  
  
  METHODS
  Death certificate data were analyzed; using multivariable binary logistic regression to determine associations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  National suicide death rates ranged from 1.4 % (Mexico) to 6.4 % (South Korea). The proportion of suicide deaths occurring at home was high, ranging from 29.9 % (South Korea) to 65.8 % (Belgium). Being older, female, widowed/separated, highly educated and living in an urban area were risk factors for home suicide.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Home suicide deaths need specific attention in prevention programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, Dongduk Women's University, Seoul, South Korea. yrh759@dongduk.ac.kr.|Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. yrh759@dongduk.ac.kr.
authors.forename: YongJoo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Rhee
authors.affiliation: End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Houttekier
authors.affiliation: Hammond Care and the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
authors.forename: Roderick
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: MacLeod
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: Donna M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.affiliation: Department of General Internal Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Marylou
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cardenas-Turanzas
authors.affiliation: Center for Palliative Care, Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loucka
authors.affiliation: Observatoire National de la Fin de Vie, Croix-Saint-Simon, Paris, France.|Service de soins palliatifs CHU, Besançon, France.
authors.forename: Regis
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aubry
authors.affiliation: Division of Geriatric Medicine, Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, University of Washington, Washington, USA.
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Teno
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Research, Seoul National Hospital, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: Sungwon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roh
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Reinecke
authors.affiliation: End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Deliens
authors.affiliation: End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002423:Cause of Death; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003644:Death Certificates; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Death certificate data; International comparison; Location of death; Suicide