Temporal trend of mortality by suicide among adults in Brazil: 2000 to 2015.
Sasckia Kadishari Medeiros DuarteDanúbia HillesheimAna Luiza de Lima Curi HallalPublished in: Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy (2021)
Mortality due to intentionally inflicted self-harm has increased in Brazil, but has undergone important variations in different parts of the country. Even a regional analysis is insufficient to achieve a thorough evaluation of these contrasts because of the country's continental proportions and data collection biases. Further studies focused on this topic are required.