title: Suicide: Incidence or Prevalence? Comments on Hernández-Alvarado et al. Increase in Suicide Rates by Hanging in the Population of Tabasco, Mexico between 2003 and 2012. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 552.
abstract: I recently reviewed the paper published in this journal by Hernández-Alvarado et al., titled "Increase in Suicide Rates by Hanging in the Population of Tabasco, Mexico between 2003 and 2012" [1], and I noticed that the epidemiological concept "prevalence" is not correctly used.[...].
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Salud Pública, Escuela de Medicina, Facultad de Salud, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga 680002, Colombia. jafernan@uis.edu.co.
authors.forename: Julián Alfredo
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fernández-Niño
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008800:Mexico; D015995:Prevalence; D011634:Public Health; D013405:Suicide