Suicide by Aboriginal people in South Australia: comparison with suicide deaths in the total urban and rural populations
作者:
John R Clayer,
Andrew S Czechowicz,
期刊:
Medical Journal of Australia
(WILEY Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 154,
issue 10
页码: 683-685
ISSN:0025-729X
年代: 1991
DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1991.tb121260.x
出版商: Wiley
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ObjectiveTo ascertain the number of recorded deaths by suicide of Aboriginal people and non‐Aboriginals in South Australian urban and rural areas over the period 1981‐1988.MethodThe South Australian Coroner's records were examined by one of the authors and an Aboriginal research officer in consultation with members of the South Australian Aboriginal community (who identified Aboriginal suicides wrongly recorded as non‐Aboriginal suicides).ResultsThere was a major increase in suicide by Aboriginal people, both urban and rural, over that period, not marked by a similar increase for non‐Aboriginal South Australians.ConclusionsA comparison can be drawn with reports of suicide by American Indians. It is possible that Aboriginal deaths by suicide can be ascribed to “anomie” (a concept first developed by Durkheim of social disintegration affecting tribal peoples under colonisation). The paper highlights the need for the development of successful intervention programmes in Aboriginal health.
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