Abstract
Pay attention to the effects of inequality in health outcomes has steadily risen during recent years. It is necessary step to achieve the goal of health for all (HFA) in the coming decades. At the moment, our knowledge about the inequality and suicide is limited. Human Development Index (HDI) is summary measures that we can demonstrate current inequalities regarded to health outcomes. We have reanalyzed the national data by Statistical Centre of Iran for HDI and Iranian Forensic Medicine Organization for suicide to explicate of inequality in suicide death in Iran. Our results showed an inverse correlation between HDI and suicide death, so that deaths from suicide was more occurred in provinces with lower HDI. Therefore, results in current study showed a positive inequality in suicide in relation with HDI in Iran. According to this, we suggested that regional studies will be conducted to detect subgroups with a high suicide risk as well as components of HDI that cause inequality.
Highlights
Suicide is considered as an important public health problem in both developing and developed countries, which lead to more than 800,000 deaths annually (Noorbala AA, 1998)
Our results confirmed a positive inequality in suicide death result from Human Development Index (HDI) in Iran
It is evident that the higher HDI was associated with lower suicide death in Iran (r= -0.089, p< 0.001)
Summary
Suicide is considered as an important public health problem in both developing and developed countries, which lead to more than 800,000 deaths annually (Noorbala AA, 1998). The effects of inequality in health have been acknowledged in developed countries (Veisani et al, 2017). Some have found that a deprived situations increasing the risk of suicide (Burrows and Laflamme, 2010; Yoder and Hoyt, 2005), while other concluded oppose it (Chan et al, 2009), this diversity may be due to variety in methods being used to measure SES. Human Development Index (HDI) is summary measures that can be demonstrated current inequalities and poverty in different contraries. In current study we aimed to obtain the relationship between inequality in HDI and suicide death in Iran using national data
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