Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults
Since the 1950’s the global suicide rates have continued to increase, and today suicide has become an important public-health problem worldwide (World Health Organization (WHO), 2002). According to WHO there are approximately one million deaths from suicide each year worldwide, and about 20 times th...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/25934 2023-05-15T14:53:02+02:00 Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults Silviken, Anne C. 2007 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25934 eng eng Universitetet i Tromsø University of Tromsø ISM skriftserie Nr. 95, 2007 990718603554702201 0801-017x https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25934 openAccess Copyright 2007 The Author(s) Suicide Norway Adolescent Population Groups Arctic Regions Selvmord selvmordsatferd ungdom samer Doctoral thesis Doktorgradsavhandling 2007 ftunivtroemsoe 2022-08-03T22:59:20Z Since the 1950’s the global suicide rates have continued to increase, and today suicide has become an important public-health problem worldwide (World Health Organization (WHO), 2002). According to WHO there are approximately one million deaths from suicide each year worldwide, and about 20 times this number of people attempt suicide (2002). There are substantial variations in the national suicide rates (Lester, 1997), and in addition great variation in rates within the same country and between different ethnic groups (Roberts, Chen & Roberts, 1997). During the last decades suicide rates have increased alarmingly among indigenous people, and especially among indigenous residing in the Arctic, such as the lnuit in Greenland (Leineweber et al., 2001) and in Canada (Sigurdson et al., 1994), and among Alaskan Natives in the US (Borowsky et al., 1999). The increase in suicide rates among indigenous people in the Arctic have been so alarmingly high that it has been described as an epidemic level (Bjerregaard & Lynge, 2006; Leenaars, 2006) and it has been declared that certain indigenous people have the highest suicide risk of any identifiable cultural (or ethnic) group (Leenaars, 2006; Kirmayer, 1994). Unfortunately, suicide has become the leading cause of death for young indigenous people, especially among males, and is a significant contributor to potential years of life lost. Although there is carried out research on the prevalence of suicidal behavior among several indigenous people, e.g. in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, our understanding of suicidal behavior among indigenous people is still limited (Cutcliffe, 2005; Leenaars, 2006; Stewart, 2005). There is no registration of ethnicity in the national population register in Norway, for that reason there are neither official statistics of health and living conditions nor suicide rates for indigenous Sami (hereafter called Sami). There have so far been conducted limited research on health and living conditions among Sami in ... Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Arctic Greenland sami sami Alaska University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Arctic Canada Greenland Lester ENVELOPE(-62.583,-62.583,-64.900,-64.900) New Zealand Norway |
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Since the 1950’s the global suicide rates have continued to increase, and today suicide has become an important public-health problem worldwide (World Health Organization (WHO), 2002). According to WHO there are approximately one million deaths from suicide each year worldwide, and about 20 times this number of people attempt suicide (2002). There are substantial variations in the national suicide rates (Lester, 1997), and in addition great variation in rates within the same country and between different ethnic groups (Roberts, Chen & Roberts, 1997). During the last decades suicide rates have increased alarmingly among indigenous people, and especially among indigenous residing in the Arctic, such as the lnuit in Greenland (Leineweber et al., 2001) and in Canada (Sigurdson et al., 1994), and among Alaskan Natives in the US (Borowsky et al., 1999). The increase in suicide rates among indigenous people in the Arctic have been so alarmingly high that it has been described as an epidemic level (Bjerregaard & Lynge, 2006; Leenaars, 2006) and it has been declared that certain indigenous people have the highest suicide risk of any identifiable cultural (or ethnic) group (Leenaars, 2006; Kirmayer, 1994). Unfortunately, suicide has become the leading cause of death for young indigenous people, especially among males, and is a significant contributor to potential years of life lost. Although there is carried out research on the prevalence of suicidal behavior among several indigenous people, e.g. in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, our understanding of suicidal behavior among indigenous people is still limited (Cutcliffe, 2005; Leenaars, 2006; Stewart, 2005). There is no registration of ethnicity in the national population register in Norway, for that reason there are neither official statistics of health and living conditions nor suicide rates for indigenous Sami (hereafter called Sami). There have so far been conducted limited research on health and living conditions among Sami in ... |
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Silviken, Anne C. |
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Silviken, Anne C. |
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Silviken, Anne C. |
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Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults |
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Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults |
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Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults |
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Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults |
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Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults |
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suicidal behavior among indigenous sami in arctic norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults |
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Universitetet i Tromsø |
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2007 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25934 |
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ENVELOPE(-62.583,-62.583,-64.900,-64.900) |
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Arctic Canada Greenland Lester New Zealand Norway |
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Arctic Canada Greenland Lester New Zealand Norway |
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Arctic Greenland sami sami Alaska |
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Arctic Greenland sami sami Alaska |
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ISM skriftserie Nr. 95, 2007 990718603554702201 0801-017x https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25934 |
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