Citation

Charlier P, Malaurie J, Wasserman D, Carli V, Sarchiapone M, Dagenais-Everell C, Herve C. Eur. Psychiatry 2017; 41: 129-131.

Affiliation

UVSQ/EA 4569, Paris-Descartes University, 78180 Paris, France; CASH & IPES, 92000 Nanterre, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.11.007

PMID

28152433

Abstract

More and more, youth suicide in the Inuit community is gaining importance, with a frequency in Greenland rising from 14.4 (1960-64) to 110.4 per 100,000 person-years (2010-11). The huge cultural/educational changes during the last 20 years and the role of globalization, especially of the occidental influence on this community may be at the origin of such an "epidemics" of suicide in this cultural region. Recently, a political organization representing the Inuit community in Canada (ITK for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) launched a National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy (NISP) based on the specificities of this community in comparison to the occidental civilization. In fact, not only the Canadian Inuit community is concerned by this epidemics of suicide, but also many other autochthonous groups. In this context, the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on suicide treatment and prevention needs to be adjusted to autochthonous individuals' needs.

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Language: en

Keywords

Depression; Ethnology; Forensic medicine; Forensic psychiatry; Medical anthropology; Suicide prevention