Every forty seconds a person takes their own life. And the situation could get worse. As the European Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou has warned, there is a direct relationship that exists between the economy and people’s health, to the point that one of the consequences of thiseconomic crisis“has been the25% increase in the number of suicidesand in a15% of new psychiatric cases“The data was made public during the general assembly that the Federation of the European Pharmaceutical Industry (Efpia) held a few days ago in Seville.
Between the10 countries with the highest suicide rateson the planet, six are members of the European Union, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization (WHO).Lithuaniaranks first in the world with 68.1 suicides per thousand male inhabitants, followed byRussiawith 58.1,Kazakhstanwith 45, and three other EU members,Hungarywith 42.3,Sloveniawith 41.1 andEstonia with 35.5.GreeceIt is the country with the lowest suicide rate in the entire EU with 5.9 per thousand people.
Thesuicides in adolescencethey are also increasing, albeit for different reasons. According to a study published yesterday in the Journal of Adolescent Health,overweightit has become one of the main risk factors for suicide among school children.
