Souza Maximiliano Loiola Ponte de, Onety Ricardo Tadeu da Silva
Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Laboratório de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Saúde Indígenas e Populações Vulneráveis, Manaus-AM, Brasil.
Epidemiol Serv Saude. 2017 Oct-Dec;26(4):887-893. doi: 10.5123/S1679-49742017000400019.
to describe suicide characteristics and mortality rates among indigenous and non-indigenous people in Roraima, Brazil.
descriptive study using data from the Mortality Information System (SIM) about the suicides in individuals over 10 years old, recorded in the period from 2009 to 2013; suicide mortality rates were adjusted by sex and age.
170 suicide cases were reported, being 17.1% among indigenous people; median ages were 24 years among indigenous and 29 among non-indigenous people; four municipalities concentrated 25/29 of the suicides among indigenous people; the 141 suicides among non-indigenous people were distributed in 13/15 municipalities in the state; suicide mortality rates were 15.0/100,000 among indigenous people and 8.6/100,000 among non-indigenous people.
ethnic-racial peculiarities stood out in suicide mortality; among the indigenous people, rates were higher, younger ages prevailed and deaths were concentrated in a smaller number of municipalities, when compared to non-indigenous people.
描述巴西罗赖马州原住民和非原住民的自杀特征及死亡率。
采用描述性研究，使用死亡信息系统（SIM）中2009年至2013年期间记录的10岁以上个体自杀数据；按性别和年龄对自杀死亡率进行调整。
报告了170例自杀病例，其中原住民占17.1%；原住民的年龄中位数为24岁，非原住民为29岁；4个市集中了25/29的原住民自杀案例；非原住民的141例自杀分布在该州的13/15个市；原住民的自杀死亡率为15.0/10万，非原住民为8.6/10万。
自杀死亡率存在种族差异；与非原住民相比，原住民的自杀率更高，年龄更小，且死亡集中在较少的市。
