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The Epa Guidance on Suicide Treatment and Prevention Needs to Be Adjusted to Fight The Epidemics of Suicide at the North Pole Area and Other Autochthonous Communities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

P. Charlier ,
J. Malaurie ,
D. Wasserman ,
V. Carli ,
M. Sarchiapone ,
C. Dagenais-Everell  and
C. Herve
P. Charlier*
Affiliation:
UVSQ/EA 4569, Paris-Descartes University, 78180Paris, France CASH & IPES, 92000Nanterre, France
J. Malaurie
Affiliation:
EHESS, 75013Paris, France
D. Wasserman
Affiliation:
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill (NASP), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
V. Carli
Affiliation:
National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill (NASP), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
M. Sarchiapone
Affiliation:
Medicine and health Science Department, University of Molise, Via De Santis, 86100Campobasso, Italy
C. Dagenais-Everell
Affiliation:
UVSQ/EA 4569, Paris-Descartes University, 78180Paris, France McGill University, Montreal, Canada
C. Herve
Affiliation:
UVSQ/EA 4569, Paris-Descartes University, 78180Paris, France CASH & IPES, 92000Nanterre, France
*
⁎Corresponding author at: Section of Forensic and Medical Anthropology, UFR of Health Sciences, EA 4569 Paris-Descartes, 2, avenue de la Source-de-la-Bièvre, 78180 Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France. Tel.: +33 1 70 42 92 72. E-mail address:philippe.charlier@uvsq.fr (P. Charlier).
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Abstract

More and more, youth suicide in the Inuit community is gaining importance, with a frequency in Greenland rising from 14.4 (1960–64) to 110.4 per 100,000 person-years (2010–11). The huge cultural/educational changes during the last 20 years and the role of globalization, especially of the occidental influence on this community may be at the origin of such an “epidemics” of suicide in this cultural region. Recently, a political organization representing the Inuit community in Canada (ITK for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami) launched a National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy (NISP) based on the specificities of this community in comparison to the occidental civilization. In fact, not only the Canadian Inuit community is concerned by this epidemics of suicide, but also many other autochthonous groups. In this context, the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) guidance on suicide treatment and prevention needs to be adjusted to autochthonous individuals’ needs.

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Medical anthropologyForensic medicineForensic psychiatrySuicide preventionDepressionEthnology
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Original article
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European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 129 - 131
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017

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