@article{ref1,
title="Changes in suicide mortality trends in Chile, 1997-2018",
journal="Salud colectiva",
year="2021",
author="Vidal, Carolina and Faunes, Carlos and Toro Huerta, Carol and Ruiz-Tagle, Cristóbal and Hoffmeister, Lorena",
volume="17",
number="",
pages="e3363-e3363",
abstract="Using information from the mortality database at Chile's Department of Statistics and Health Information (Ministry of Health), an ecological time-series study was conducted to determine changing trends in suicide rates by sex and age group in Chile from 1997 to 2018. <br><br>RESULTS show that the mortality rate for men in 2018 was 20.1 per 100,000, almost five times higher than the rate for women. Trends in both sexes show a decrease in aver-age annual percent change of -5.4% [CI95% (-12.9; 1.9)] between 2009 and 2013. Over the same period, the average annual percent change for men was -5.8% [CI95% (-12.5; 2.3)], while for women it was -4.0 [CI95% (-5.8; -2.2)] between 2008 and 2018. No changes have been observed in trends for men aged 60 and over, the group with the high-est rates. Although suicide rates declined following the implementation of policies focus-ing on risk factors for suicide, it is necessary to evaluate the implementation of these pol-icies and devise similar actions geared toward populations with greater risk of suicide.<p /> <p>Language: es</p>",
language="es",
issn="1669-2381",
doi="10.18294/sc.2021.3363",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.18294/sc.2021.3363"
}