Epidemiology of suicide in Brazil (1980 – 2000 ...（自杀流行病学在巴西(1980 - 2000）.pdf

131 BRIEFBRIEF REPORT REPORT BRIEF REPORT BRIEFBRIEF REPORT REPORT Epidemiology of suicide in Brazil (1980 – 2000): characterization of age and gender rates of suicide Epidemiologia do suicídio no Brasil (1980 – 2000): caracterização das taxas de suicídio por idade e gênero Carolina de Mello-Santos,1 José Manuel Bertolote,2 Yuan-Pang Wang1,3 Original version accepted in POriginal version accepted in Porortuguesetuguese Original version accepted in Portuguese Original version accepted in POriginal version accepted in Porortuguesetuguese AbstractAbstract Abstract AbstractAbstract ObjectiveObjective Objective: To describe the suicide rates in Brazil in recent decades, drawing comparisons with the worldwide epidemiological ObjectiveObjective MethodsMethods situation. Methods: Descriptive analyses of Brazilian suicide data, relating to the 1980-2000 period and extracted from the