Suicide Mortality Gap between Francophones and Anglophones of Quebec, Canada

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Suicide Mortality Gap between Francophones and Anglophones of Quebec, Canada
Abstract
The authors assess the suicide mortality gap between Francophones and Anglophones of Quebec according to age, sex, method, region and socioeconomic deprivation. They found that suicide rates for Francophones were two to three times higher than rates for Anglophones, and differences were greatest for adults aged 25–64 years. Francophone males had more than two times the rate of suicide by hanging or firearms than Anglophone males. Francophone females had twice the rate of hanging, poisoning or firearm suicide as Anglophone females, although precision was low. Francophone-Anglophone suicide mortality gaps were higher in urban areas despite lower suicide rates, and varied little across levels of social and material deprivation.
Publication
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Volume
Vol. 48
Issue
no. 7
Pages
1125-1132
Date
July 2013
Language
en
Citation
Burrows, Stephanie, Nathalie Auger, Lum Tamambang, and Amadou D. Barry. “Suicide Mortality Gap between Francophones and Anglophones of Quebec, Canada.” Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology Vol. 48, no. 7 (July 2013): 1125–1132.
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