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International comparative analysis of suicide mortality
Barešová, Tereza ; Burcin, Boris (advisor) ; Ženíšková, Aneta (referee)
International comparative analysis of suicide mortality Abstract The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to analyze the development of suicide mortality in international context between 2000-2015. At the beginning, the thesis resumes historical development of research into this cause of death and scientific approaches by which can be suicide examined. It then describes the main risk factors of suicide and identifies the most vulnerable groups of people. The available data are research mainly through standardized suicide mortality rates in total and in selected age groups. This thesis analyzes suicide in 47 countries (36 European, 7 Asian, 1 African and Canada, Australia and New Zealand). It has been found that eastern European countries have the highest suicide mortality rates. At the same time, these countries recorded the most significant decline in these rates between 2000-2015. In the long term, the lowest suicide rates are characterized by the countries of southern Europe. The hypothesis of male mortality excess was confirmed in all analyzed countries. This thesis also confirmed the assumption that the intensity of suicide mortality rate increases in direct proportion to age in all analyzed countries (except for Finnish, Norwegian, Canadian and Australian women). Keywords: mortality, suicidal tendency,...
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