A study on suicide by self immolation
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A study on suicide by self immolation.
Deaths from suicides reached a peak in Sri Lanka in 1995 to 48.7 per 100,000 population, the highest in the world. Several interventions reduced the rate to 20.6 per 100,000 in 2007 [1]. Self immolation (SI) as a method of suicide is reported from many developing countries [2,3]. In 2006, 3558 males and 946 females (total 4504) committed suicide in Sri Lanka. SI was the method used by 148 (3.3%...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ceylon Medical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2386-1274,0009-0875
DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v56i4.3906