Citation

Bursztein Lipsicas C, Mäkinen IH, Wasserman D, Apter A, Bobes J, Kerkhof A, Michel K, Renberg ES, van Heeringen CK, Värnik A, Schmidtke A. Eur. J. Public Health 2014; 24(1): 63-65.

Affiliation

1 National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm County Council's Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/eurpub/ckt090

PMID

23813716

Abstract

This report describes the investigation of care recommendations in the medical system across European countries to immigrants who attempted suicide. Data from seven European countries with 8865 local and 2921 immigrant person-cases were derived from the WHO/EURO Multicentre Study on Suicidal Behaviour and ensuing MONSUE (Monitoring Suicidal Behaviour in Europe) project. The relationship between immigrant status and type of aftercare recommended was analysed with binary logistic regression, adjusting for gender, age, method of attempt and the Centre collecting the data. Clear disparities were identified in the care recommendation practices toward immigrants, compared with hosts, over and above differing policies by the European Centres.

Language: en