Suicide among young Canadian girls is on the rise. Last year in Canada, five young girls committed suicide within five months.
According to community health worker Janili, after this news, everyone was wondering when the trend would end.
According to data released by Statistics Canada, suicide rates among young girls and women across the country are on the rise, while men have seen a decline.
Canadian medical experts have long been concerned about rising suicide trends among the country’s young men.
According to the data of 2013, during this period, the suicide rate among men was three times higher than that of women, but now the trend of suicide among young women is increasing.
In Canada, suicide rates among young women have increased by 38 percent over the past decade, compared to 34 percent among men.
In 2013, the suicide rate among young women in their 20s in Canada was 42%.
According to the World Health Organization, in the year 2014, a similar trend was revealed in the United States, and young girls between the ages of 15 and 19 in the developing world committed suicide during childbirth.
A 2012 report published by the Public Health Agency of Canada urged researchers to investigate why suicide rates among young boys have declined since the 1980s, but among girls. no.
The Canadian government is expected to provide substantial funding for mental health during its annual budget in the middle of this month, but medical experts are weighing whether gender-specific suicide rates in Canada are increasing. Need to think about reduction?
Renee Linklater, director of the Center for Mental Health and Addiction in Toronto, says that there is a need to pay close attention to why there is an increase in suicide among children, especially when we are seeing young children themselves. Dying of decay.
They say they are concerned that there has been an increase in suicide rates among young women for some time.
According to data obtained by the English Publisher, Dahi women are more likely to kill themselves than urban women.
In 2015, more than half of women who committed suicide were women. Between 2006 and 2015, the number of women committing suicide increased by a factor of five.
Researchers in Canada and around the world have been unable to pinpoint the rising trend of suicide among young women. Some say it may be because young women are taking lethal measures, while others say it may be because medical officers are underreporting female suicide. have been.
In Canada, women are three to four times more likely to commit suicide than men.