Suicide - A challenge in modern Greenland

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 209-220

  Bjerregaard, Peter ^a,c   Lynge, Inge ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENLAND   (Greenland)

^b Center for Health Research in Greenland ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Greenland; Inuit; Modernization; Suicides

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY CARE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INUITS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 33645754523     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811110600558265     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Bertelsen, A. (1935). Grønlandsk medicinsk statistik og nosografi: Undersøgelser og erfaringer fra 30 aars grønlandsk lægevirksomhed. Bd. I: Grønlands befolkningsstatistik 1901-30 [Greenland medical statistics and nosography: Investigations and experiences from 30 years of work as a medical doctor. Vol I: Greenland population statistics 1901-30; in Danish]. Meddelelser om Grønland, 117(1), 1-83.
2. Bjerregaard, P. & Curtis, T. (2002). Cultural change and mental health in Greenland. The association of childhood conditions, language and urbanization with mental health and suicidal thoughts among the Inuit of Greenland. Social Science and Medicine, 54, 33-48.
3. Bj̈rkstén, K. S., Bjerregaard, P., & Kripke, D. F. (2005). Suicides in the midnight sun - a study of seasonality in suicides in West Greenland. Psychiatry Research (in press).
4. Boothroyd, L. J., Kirmayer, L. J., Spreng, S., et al. (2001). Completed suicides among the Inuit of northern Québec, 1982-1996: A case-control study. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 165, 749-755.
5. Bowlby, J. (1979). The making and breaking of affectionate bonds. London: Tavistock Publications.
6. Briggs, J. L. (1985). Socialization, family conflicts and responses to culture change among Canadian Inuit. Arctic Medical Research, 40, 40-52.
7. Briggs, J. L. (1995). Vicissitudes of attachment: Nurturance and dependence in Canadian Inuit family relationships, old and new. Arctic Medical Research, 54, 24-32.
8. Durkheim, E. (1897). Le Suicide. Paris: Librarie Felix Alcan.
9. Gregersen, C. (1998). Liv og død - selvmord i Grønland [Life and death - suicides in Greenland; in Danish]. Psykolog Nyt, 2, 14-20.
10. Grove, O. & Lynge, I. (1979). Suicide and attempted suicide in Greenland: A controlled study in Nuuk. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 60, 375-391.
11. Hunter, E. & Harvey, D. (2002). Indigenous suicide in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Emergency Medicine (Fremantle), 14, 14-23.
12. Hvilsom, F. & Folkver, P. (1994). Af den indre styrke [Of inner strength, in Danish]. Nuuk: Atuakkiorfik.
13. Kirmayer, L. J. (1994). Suicide among Canadian aboriginal peoples. Trans-cultural Psychiatric Research Review, 31, 3-58.
14. Kleinfeldt, J. & Bloom, J. (1973) A long way from home. Effects of public high school on village children away from home. Fairbanks: Center for Northern Educational Research and Institute of Social, Economic and Government Research. University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
15. Kraus, R. (1971). Changing patterns of suicidal behavior in North Alaskan Eskimos. Read at the Second International Symposium on Circumpolar Health June 21-24, 1971 Oulu, Finland. Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research.
16. Kraus, R. (1973). Eskimo suicide. Paper presented at a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 1973.
17. Leineweber, M., Bjerregaard, P., Baerveldt, C., et al. (2001). Suicide in a society in transition. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 60, 280-287.
18. Lynge, I. (1985). Suicide in Greenland. Arctic Medical Research, 40, 53-60.
19. Lynge, I. (1994). Suicide in Greenland. In G. Pétursdottir, S. B. Sigurdsson, M. M. Karlsson, et al. (Eds.), Circumpolar Health 93. Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on Circumpolar Health. Arctic Medical Research, 53, 551-554.
20. Lynge, I. (1995). Mental disorders and conditions of life in childhood among Greenlanders. Arctic Medical Research, 54, (Suppl. 1), 60-67.
21. Lynge, I. & Bjerregaard, P. (2002). Selvmord, selvmordsforsøg og selvmordstanker i Grønland. En oversigt og forslag til forebyggelse [Suicides, suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts in Greenland. An overview and suggestions for prevention; in Danish]. Proceedings fra Nuna Med 2000, 166-175.
22. Paarisa, (2004). Forslag til national strategi for selvmordsforebyggelse i Grønland [Proposal for a national strategy for the prevention of suicides in Greenland, in Danish]. Nuuk, Grønlands Hjemmestyre, Direktoratet for Sundhed.
23. Rogers, D. D. (1982). Suicide in the Canadian Northwest Territories 1970-1980. Circumpolar Health 81. Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Circumpolar Health. Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research Report Series 33, 492-495.
24. Sadler, W. A. & Johnson, T. B. (1980). From loneliness to anomia. In J. Hartog, J. R. Audt, & Y. A. Cohen (Eds.), The Anatomy of Loneliness (pp. 34-65). New York: Universities Press.
25. Thorslund, J. (1990). Inuit suicides in Greenland. Arctic Medical Research, 49, 25-33.
26. Thorslund, J. (1992). Ungdomsselvmord og moderniseringsproblemer blandt Inuit i Grønland [Youth suicides and problems of modernization among the Inuit in Greenland; in Danish]. Holte: SOCPOL.
27. Thorslund, J. & Misfeldt, J. C. (1989). On suicide statistics. Arctic Medical Research, 48, 124-130.
28. United Nations (WHO) (1996). Guidelines for formulation and implementation of comprehensive national strategies for prevention of suicide behaviors and the provision of supportive and rehabilitative services to persons at risk and other affected persons. United Nations, New York.