A new study ranks Canada as having the sixth-highest suicide mortality rate in 2019, out of 33 countries in North, Central, and South America.
Conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and published on Feb. 23 in The Lancet Regional Health, the study is the first of its kind to examine the impact of specific contextual factors associated with national suicide rates in the Americas, according to CAMH.
The study looked at suicide rates from 2000–2019 using a cross-sectional ecological study.
In 2019, there were over 97,000 suicides in the region of the Americas, with a suicide mortality rate of 9.0 per 100,000 population, says the study. Among males, the rate was 14.2 per 100,000, and among females it was 4.1 per 100,000….