Citation

De la Poza E, Jódar L. Cult. Med. Psychiatry 2018; 42(4): 800-820.

Affiliation

Instituto Universitario de Matemática Multidisciplinar, Universitat Politècnica de València, Building 8G, 2nd floor, 46022, Valencia, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11013-018-9589-4

PMID

29948433

Abstract

A relevant proportion of deaths by suicide have been attributed to other causes that produce the number of suicides remains hidden. The existence of a hidden number of cases is explained by the nature of the problem. Problems like this involve violence, and produce fear and social shame in victims' families. The existence of violence, fear and social shame experienced by victims favours a considerable number of suicides, identified as accidents or natural deaths. This paper proposes a short time discrete compartmental mathematical model to measure the suicidal risk for the case of Spain. The compartment model classifies and quantifies the amount of the Spanish population within the age intervals (16, 78) by their degree of suicide risk and their changes over time. Intercompartmental transits are due to the combination of quantitative and qualitative factors.

RESULTS are computed and simulations are performed to analyze the sensitivity of the model under uncertain coefficients.

Language: en

Keywords

Compartment model; Depression; Drug abuse; Economic stress; Spain; Suicide risk