Gender differentials and state variations in suicide deaths in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

Summary: Background: A systematic understanding of suicide mortality trends over time at the subnational level for India's 1·3 billion people, 18% of the global population, is not readily available. Thus, we aimed to report time trends of suicide deaths, and the heterogeneity in its distributi...

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Main Authors: Rakhi Dandona, G Anil Kumar, R S Dhaliwal, Mohsen Naghavi, Theo Vos, D K Shukla, Lakshmi Vijayakumar, G Gururaj, J S Thakur, Atul Ambekar, Rajesh Sagar, Megha Arora, Deeksha Bhardwaj, Joy K Chakma, Eliza Dutta, Melissa Furtado, Scott Glenn, Caitlin Hawley, Sarah C Johnson, Tripti Khanna, Michael Kutz, W Cliff Mountjoy-Venning, Pallavi Muraleedharan, Thara Rangaswamy, Chris M Varghese, Mathew Varghese, K Srinath Reddy, Christopher J L Murray, Soumya Swaminathan, Lalit Dandona
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-10-01
Series:The Lancet Public Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468266718301385