For males, age-specific suicide death rates fluctuated over the period 1992 ... rate from suicide in the younger 15-19 years age group actually declined ... in 1998) [3]. 2.1.2 SuicideRates in Victoria The rate of suicide in Victoria in 2002
of Suicides 1989-2003; Western Australian State Coroner’s Office (2004), SuicideRates ... Suicides: Recent Trends Australia, Category Number 3309.0.55.001, December. SACES calculations. A comparison of female suicides per 100, 000 by age category over the period ... W estern AustraliaSuicides per 100, 000 New South W ales Victoria 2002* Year Source:
Figure 2: Victorian male and female age-specific suiciderates, 2001 (deaths per 100, 000) ... Cat. No. 3303.0, Canberra. The trends for female suiciderates follow a similar longitudinal pattern as for males, but at a much lower rate. Although suiciderates ... attempt suicide more frequently and engage in higher levels of self-harm. Lower rates
that the response rate in this state was strongly influenced by the Suicide Helpline, funded ... for comparison of State and Territory rates. ... of total calls taken. The presence of only one Centre in Western Australia and none
The highest rates of avoidable mortality for the selected major condition groups in the North East Victorian DGP were for cancer, with a rate of 66.7 deaths ... and selected cause, North East Victorian DGP, country Victoria, Victoria and Australia, 1997 to 2001 Condition group/ selected cause North East Victorian DGP No. Rate1 Country Victoria Victoria Australia Rate1 Rate1 Rate1 No. No. No. Cancer Colorectal ... with rates of 38.8 per 100, 000 population and 23.0 per 100, 000, respectively.
Figure 8.14 shows that Victorian female suicides per 100, 000 between the period 1993- 1997 were mostly above Western Australia but below New South Wales. In contrast, for the period 1998-2001 Victorian numbers were below those of Western ... W estern AustraliaSuicides per 100, 000 Victoria New South W ales 2002* Year Source: ... australia, new south wales, victoria, western australia
in Australia were by suicide, representing 51.3 per cent of deaths (Dalton, 1998b). This represents the highest annual number of Australian prison suicides ever recorded. The rate of suicide in prison is estimated to be between 15 (Temby, 1990) and 2.5 times ... Table 1 Prison Suicides in Australia by Jurisdiction and Fiscal Year. Figures courtesy of the National Deaths in Custody Monitoring and Research Program (Dalton, 1998b). NSW VIC QLD WA SA TAS NT ACT AUSTRALIA ... australia
population, and that the Australia-wide suicide success rate is a reasonable indicator ... attempted suicides among adult Australians and 2 708 successful suicides (in 1997), giving a GAMBLING Finally, another approach is to use the variation in suiciderates ... to increased suicides then this should contribute to higher suiciderates in areas where
to suicide. VICTORIANSUICIDES 1991‐2001 BY STATISTICAL LOCAL AREA ANNUAL NUMBER PER Total number of suicides: Victoria The following graphs from the Australian Institute ... ‐ Male Average Suicide high Burden of Disease ‐ Female Average Suicide high Hospital