Citation

B A, D U, B I, E N, M T, B U. Innovation 2017; 13-15.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017)

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Abstract

@#BACKGROUND. In the worldwide every 40 seconds one person takes their life, annually 1 million people die on Earth by the means of suicide. Regardless of gender it is one of the main 3 causes of death in the population aged between 15-29. There have a tendency to increase of suicide rates with each passing year in the Mongolia. Therefore, our study goal is to determine the utilized methods and to identify some of the factors influencing the escalation of this phenomenon. The data and materials were gathered by quantitative research method from the post-mortem examination reports provided from the central archive of National Institute of Forensic Science according to the descriptive research design. The fact that the bulk of the increasing suicide cases might be attributed to the unemployed and working-age men without any chronic illnesses suggests correlation with gender and socio-economic status.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; hanging; strangulation