Muertes por suicidio en la Región de Tarapacá, a?os 1990-2013

摘要

Introduction: It presents the update of an epidemiologic descriptive study of deaths by suicide that took place in the Tarapacá region, Chile. The study encompasses almost a quarter of acentury, between the years 1990 and 2013, and brings interesting information with respect tothe tendencies of the phenomenon along an extensive period of time. Method: A retrospectiveepidemiologic descriptive study of type transvensal of deaths classified as violent in the autopsyprotocols of the Servicio Médico Legal of the city of Iquique and the medical death certificate.Results: In a total of565 cases, a general rate of suicide for this period of 9,18 for 100.000 habhas been noted, with variations of the annual rates between 4, 95 in the year 1995 and 13, 97in the year 1999. It was observed that suicide was more frequent between the ages 20 and 44years, with a relation men-women of 5,3:1. Conclusions: The previous study (2010) confirmesa tendency to the stabilization of the increasing rates observed in the past decade. In figures thisrate was somehow inferior to the general rate ofsuicide of the country in the year 2011 (13,3 for 100.00 hab.), but it doubled the registered rates in the 90’s.