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Indigenous Suicide Deaths 1981 to 2018
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet 2
Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP); Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia.
2019
Abstract
Suicide was not known in traditional Aboriginal society suggesting it is a relatively recent phenomenon since colonisation—emerging as an issue in the 1960s1,2. The 1970s saw suicide rates and suicidal behaviour increase and by the 1980s the situation became endemic in some Aboriginal communities. By the 1990s suicide was a significant contributor to early preventable deaths among Aboriginal people. This fact sheet shows the increasing Indigenous suicide rates over the past 50 years and presents data on Indigenous suicide over the last decade.
Details
- Title
- Indigenous Suicide Deaths 1981 to 2018
- Authors/Creators
- Patricia Dudgeon - The University of Western AustraliaC. HollandRoz Walker - Murdoch University, Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Publication Details
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Fact Sheet 2
- Publisher
- Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP); Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia.
- Identifiers
- 991005872936307891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Ngangk Yira Institute for Change
- Resource Type
- Other
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