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Sharply Reduced but Still Heavy Self-Harm Burdens in Hubei Province, China, 1990–2015

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  • Jingju Pan

    (Institute of Chronic Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan 430079, China)

  • Lan Zhang

    (Institute of Chronic Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan 430079, China)

  • Yumeng Tang

    (Institute of Chronic Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan 430079, China)

  • Qian Li

    (Institute of Chronic Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan 430079, China)

  • Chuanhua Yu

    (School of Health Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430071, China)

  • Tianjing He

    (Institute of Chronic Non-Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan 430079, China)

Abstract

The aims of this study were to describe fatal and non-fatal self-harm burdens, as well as burdens from the main preventable risk factors, and to investigate the different suicide methods in Hubei province in central China utilizing data from both Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 and Hubei Disease Surveillance Points system. All self-harm burdens including mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability adjusted life-years (DALYs) consistently demonstrated downward trends in Hubei from 1990 to 2015, with a bigger decline gap observed among females and narrower decreasing amplitudes among the elderly. Hubei experienced much higher age-standardized rates for self-harm mortality (22.0 per 100,000), YLLs (560.1 per 100,000) and DALYs (563.9 per 100,000) than the national (9.0, 292.3 and 295.0 per 100,000 respectively) and global levels (11.5, 453.3 and 457.9 per 100,000 respectively) in 2015. Self-harm burdens have begun shifting from females to males and the elderly suffered more self-harm burdens than other age groups. Alcohol use accounted for 20.9% of all self-harm DALYs for males, whereas intimate partner violence accounted for 24.4% of all self-harm DALYs for females. Poisoning, mainly pesticide self-poisoning, was still the most common method of suicide. Effective interventions by multi-sectoral collaboration are urgently needed to reduce the alarmingly heavy self-harm burdens in Hubei.

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  • Jingju Pan & Lan Zhang & Yumeng Tang & Qian Li & Chuanhua Yu & Tianjing He, 2018. "Sharply Reduced but Still Heavy Self-Harm Burdens in Hubei Province, China, 1990–2015," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(2), pages 1-14, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:15:y:2018:i:2:p:391-:d:133092
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    1. Zhenkun Wang & Jinyao Wang & Junzhe Bao & Xudong Gao & Chuanhua Yu & Huiyun Xiang, 2016. "Temporal Trends of Suicide Mortality in Mainland China: Results from the Age-Period-Cohort Framework," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-10, August.
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