Suicidal behavior among indigenous Sami in Arctic Norway : a special focus on adolescents and young adults

• Main Author: Silviken, Anne C.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetet i Tromsø 2007
• Subjects: Suicide; Norway; Adolescent; Population Groups; Arctic Regions; Selvmord; selvmordsatferd; ungdom; samer; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; Lester; New Zealand; sami; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/25934

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...