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Mortality and hospitalization\ncounts and rates were reported by sex, 5-year age groups and method.<\/p>\n       <\/sec>\n       <sec>\n         <title>Results<\/title>\n         <p>The Canadian suicide rate (males and females combined, all ages, age-sex standardized\nrate) has decreased from 14.4\/100 000 (n = 3355) in 1979 to 10.4\/100 000 (n = 3926)\nin 2012, with an annual percent change (APC) of \u20131.2% (95% CI: \u20131.3 to \u20131.0). However,\nthis trend was not observed in both sexes: female suicide rates stabilized around 1990, while\nmale rates continued declining over time\u2014yet males still accounted for 75.7% of all suicides\nin 2012. Suffocation (hanging and strangulation) was the primary method of suicide (46.9%)\namong Canadians of all ages in 2012, followed by poisoning at 23.3%.\nIn the 2014\/15 fiscal year, there were 13 438 hospitalizations in Canada (excluding Quebec)\nassociated with self-inflicted injuries\u2014over 3 times the number of suicides. Over time\nfemales have displayed consistently higher rates of hospitalization for self-inflicted injury\nthan males, with 63% of the total. Poisoning was reported as the most frequent means of\nself-inflicted harm in the fiscal year 2014\/15, at 86% of all hospitalizations.<\/p>\n       <\/sec>\n\t   <sec>\n         <title>Conclusion<\/title>\n         <p>Suicides and self-inflicted injuries continue to be a serious\u2014but preventable\u2014\npublic health problem that requires ongoing surveillance.<\/p>\n       <\/sec>","DOI":"10.24095\/hpcdp.36.11.02","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,3,28]],"date-time":"2017-03-28T17:24:06Z","timestamp":1490721846000},"page":"243-251","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Suicide and self-inflicted injury hospitalizations in Canada (1979 to 2014\/15)"],"prefix":"10.24095","volume":"36","author":[{"given":"R.","family":"Skinner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"McFaull","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J.","family":"Draca","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Frechette","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J.","family":"Kaur","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"C.","family":"Pearson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"W.","family":"Thompson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"10188","container-title":["Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/reports-publications\/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice\/vol-36-no-11-2016\/suicide-self-inflicted-injury-hospitalizations-canada-1979-2014-15.html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,6]],"date-time":"2017-12-06T19:41:04Z","timestamp":1512589264000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-health\/services\/reports-publications\/health-promotion-chronic-disease-prevention-canada-research-policy-practice\/vol-36-no-11-2016\/suicide-self-inflicted-injury-hospitalizations-canada-1979-2014-15.html"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2016,11]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"11"},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.24095\/hpcdp.36.11.02","archive":["Internet Archive"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["2368-738X"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2368-738X","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2016,11]]}}}