1243 | 844 | Spatial study of suicide and its causes in Poland | Tomasz Kossowski (1), Justyna Wilk (1)

Suicide in Poland is one of the significant social and health problems. According to statistical data, in 2019, the rate of fatal suicide attempts in Poland was 9.3 per 100,000 inhabitants. The value of this ratio is slightly lower than the European average (10.5). Our paper aims to conduct a spatial study of suicides and their reasons in Poland that have been registered since 2018._x000D_
Suicide can usually result from several groups of problems. Statistics Poland registers suicidal behaviours by reason for a commitment such as mental illness, physical condition, family violence, mobbing, cruelty, heartbreak, problems at/in school or work, weak economic conditions, debts, committing crime or offence, unwanted pregnancy, threat to or loss of domicile etc._x000D_
The number of suicides and their causes can spatially vary across the country. Within the neighbouring local units (e.g., the units located within a metropolitan area), the incidences of suicide can also have very similar or different reasons. This paper aims to study a spatial diversification of the number of suicides and their motivations. Our study includes Poland’s local administrative units (LAU-1) in the last few years (since 2018)._x000D_
Detailed spatial analyses can help to investigate the geographic pattern of the suicide problem. The results of such a study can suggest some recommendations to reduce the scale of suicide problems, especially in the areas identified as exposed to higher suicide ratios, e.g. depressive, peripheral or, in opposite, very-well developed regions.

Tomasz Kossowski (1), Justyna Wilk (1)
(1) Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

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ID Abstract: 844