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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on April 26, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2006 16(4):445; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl056
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Do we need to be cautious in evaluating suicide statistics?

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Misclassifications result in under-reported official suicide data. Under-reporting varies across countries. Chishti1 looked at the 1984–98 mortality of suicide and undetermined causes in the European Union (EU) countries. Similar to suicide rates, undetermined causes were lowest in Mediterranean countries, and lowest in Greece. However, Portugal had the highest rate of undetermined causes, and only here this rate exceeded the suicide rate. Belgium, Germany, Ireland, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Karl Andriessen

Correspondence: Karl Andriessen, BSW, GrCertSuicPrevSt, Coordinator Suicide Prevention Project, Flemish Mental Health Federation, Martelaarslaan 204, 9000 Gent, Belgium, e-mail: karlandriessen@werkgroepverder.be


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