Vincent Lorant1, Rianne de Gelder2, Dharmi Kapadia3, Carme Borrell4, Ramune Kalediene5, Katalin Kovács6, Mall Leinsalu7, Pekka Martikainen8, Gwenn Menvielle9, Enrique Regidor10, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz4, Bogdan Wojtyniak11, Bjørn Heine Strand12, Matthias Bopp13, Johan P Mackenbach2. 1. Institute of Health and Society,Université Catholique de Louvain,Brussels,Belgium. 2. Department of Public Health,Erasmus MC,Rotterdam,the Netherlands. 3. Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research,University of Manchester,Manchester,UK. 4. Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona,Barcelona,Spain. 5. Lithuanian University of Health Sciences,Kaunas,Lithuania. 6. Demographic Research Institute of the Central Statistical Office,Budapest,Hungary. 7. Stockholm Centre for Health and Social Change, Södertörn University,Huddinge,Sweden and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,National Institute for Health Development,Tallinn,Estonia. 8. Department of Sociology,University of Helsinki,Finland. 9. Sorbonne Universités,INSERM,Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136),Paris,France. 10. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health,Universidad Complutense de Madrid,Spain. 11. Department Centre of Monitoring and Analyses of Population Health,National Institute of Public Health, National Institute of Hygiene,Warsaw,Poland. 12. Norwegian Institute of Public Health,Department on Ageing,Oslo,Norway. 13. Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute,University of Zürich,Switzerland.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Suicide has been decreasing over the past decade. However, we do not know whether socioeconomic inequality in suicide has been decreasing as well.AimsWe assessed recent trends in socioeconomic inequalities in suicide in 15 European populations. METHOD: The DEMETRIQ study collected and harmonised register-based data on suicide mortality follow-up of population censuses, from 1991 and 2001, in European populations aged 35-79. Absolute and relative inequalities of suicide according to education were computed on more than 300 million person-years. RESULTS: In the 1990s, people in the lowest educational group had 1.82 times more suicides than those in the highest group. In the 2000s, this ratio increased to 2.12. Among men, absolute and relative inequalities were substantial in both periods and generally did not decrease over time, whereas among women inequalities were absent in the first period and emerged in the second. CONCLUSIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO) plan for 'Fair opportunity of mental wellbeing' is not likely to be met.Declaration of interestNone.
BACKGROUND: Suicide has been decreasing over the past decade. However, we do not know whether socioeconomic inequality in suicide has been decreasing as well.AimsWe assessed recent trends in socioeconomic inequalities in suicide in 15 European populations. METHOD: The DEMETRIQ study collected and harmonised register-based data on suicide mortality follow-up of population censuses, from 1991 and 2001, in European populations aged 35-79. Absolute and relative inequalities of suicide according to education were computed on more than 300 million person-years. RESULTS: In the 1990s, people in the lowest educational group had 1.82 times more suicides than those in the highest group. In the 2000s, this ratio increased to 2.12. Among men, absolute and relative inequalities were substantial in both periods and generally did not decrease over time, whereas among women inequalities were absent in the first period and emerged in the second. CONCLUSIONS: The World Health Organization (WHO) plan for 'Fair opportunity of mental wellbeing' is not likely to be met.Declaration of interestNone.
Authors: Aina Gabarrell-Pascuet; Mireia Félez-Nóbrega; Paula Cristóbal-Narváez; Philippe Mortier; Gemma Vilagut; Beatriz Olaya; Jordi Alonso; Josep Maria Haro; Joan Domènech-Abella Journal: Curr Psychol Date: 2021-08-19