Abstract
This essay article examines suicide among young people in Brazil on the basis of Durkheim's classical approaches as revisited in current discussions of social integration networks. It presents arguments regarding the behaviour of suicide mortality rates in the light of classical public health assumptions as to social causality in processes of health and illness. The mortality rates, updated in line with international statistics, review of data in Brazilian studies and recent series for Brazil, reveal suicide "aptitudes" by age, sex and social group. The linear and non-linear nature of the trends are treated in the context of pathways in complex social systems. Current data were prospected in the Ministry of Health'sNational Mortality Information System and World Health Organisation databases. In this policy analysis study, a conceptual outline was built up from classical theory updated to the present-day context, analysis of data relevant to the study object and observation of target groups for comprehensive, inclusive policies. The results of this analysis reveal that adolescents and young people are highly liable to growing, sustained, high-impact vulnerability to suicide.
Highlights
Suicide is one of the oldest health issues involving individuals and how they are affected by the collectivities and societies they live in
Students of suicide endeavouring to understand its radical nature have aligned – historically and schematically – with positions ranging from those that consider it the most individual of human acts through to those that understand it as resulting from social pressures, by way of others intending, in different and largely unrelated manners, to interconnect the individual and social dimensions. Prominent among those that concentrate on the individual dimensions of suicide is a focus on individual clinical aspects, usually examined in aggregate form by specialities such as epidemiology and public health
In the 18 to 24 year age group, the high suicide risks among those who suffered some kind of sexual abuse[24] or were associated with a series of uncontrolled exposures to drugs and sex[25] are important considerations for health sector policies
Summary
Suicide is one of the oldest health issues involving individuals and how they are affected by the collectivities and societies they live in.
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