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

• Main Authors: Rakhi Dandona (Author), G Anil Kumar (Author), R S Dhaliwal (Author), Mohsen Naghavi (Author), Theo Vos (Author), D K Shukla (Author), Lakshmi Vijayakumar (Author), G Gururaj (Author), J S Thakur (Author), Atul Ambekar (Author), Rajesh Sagar (Author), Megha Arora (Author), Deeksha Bhardwaj (Author), Joy K Chakma (Author), Eliza Dutta (Author), Melissa Furtado (Author), Scott Glenn (Author), Caitlin Hawley (Author), Sarah C Johnson (Author), Tripti Khanna (Author), Michael Kutz (Author), W Cliff Mountjoy-Venning (Author), Pallavi Muraleedharan (Author), Thara Rangaswamy (Author), Chris M Varghese (Author), Mathew Varghese (Author), K Srinath Reddy (Author), Christopher J L Murray (Author), Soumya Swaminathan (Author), Lalit Dandona (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 distributio...