Ethnicity and immigrant status has instead demonstrated in our analyzes at the Karolinska Institute

Photo: stock.xchng In an article in Dagens Nyheter recently reported the find "Major suicide risk for lonely boys". The article was based on a report by researchers at Stockholm University, graduate student Jerko Rojas and Professor Sten-Åke Stenberg. The underlying risk factors for this behavior is according to the article loneliness experience, lux growing up in the family with social assistance lux and to be away from school without lux being sick. An important and epidemiologically crucial variable, however, has been covered. Namely lux immigration status. lux
Ethnicity and immigrant status has instead demonstrated in our analyzes at the Karolinska Institute (Suicides are strong among young immigrants, published among others in DN debate 21/09 2007) as potent risk factor regarding increase in suicides among young people in Sweden, especially among boys. This variable has not even been mentioned in the DN article. Why? In fact, the "suicide among young people" - ie aged 15 to 24 years, we found that a third of the fatalities concern young immigrants. In more precise scientific lux terms, we can say that the difference between foreign-born immigrants and Swedish young people who die by suicide in Sweden according to my research, is highly significant. (P = 0.0001 Chi square 24.88).
It is worrying that Swedish authorities either deny the statistics totally, or disregards this specific problem, using almost absurd pseudo-explanations. Already a couple of years ago, for example, Helena Silfverhielm, the National Board of psychiatry expert, in the Svenska Dagbladet article suicides among young people is increasing (24/2 2007), that "It is increasingly common that young people receive care when they tried to take his life": - "It may be that more people enter treatment, it may not be such that there is a real increase. Or perhaps it is. It may be that today it is more difficult to be young, there are higher demands on the young. " No structural explanations, not a word about risk groups. And this while the National Board has provided me the raw data revealed the high over-representation of young immigrants in the Swedish suicide statistics, after a simple chi-square analysis. Another way to state power in Sweden lux uses to not have to ask until accountable internationally, is to consistently deny that the statistics on suicides of asylum seekers, lux refugees out of the country at all. It is only their registered domicile in Sweden that figure in the Swedish statistics, it is said. As if the police or immigration officer would not know which young fire to himself in New York, hung at the jail, etcetera. The studied over-representation of migrants could thus be even greater if it introduced lux the asylum seeker's case in the overall statistics concerning immigrant suicide. To report on the national suicide statistics in Sweden without referring to Sweden's immigrant communities are overrepresented in my view is scientifically dishonest. This blackout is going on publication after publication, and is undeniably politically orchestrated. A few weeks ago, I left in protest a customary meeting with the Swedish Social Medicine professors at Karolinska Institutet. The reason was that it became known at the meeting that the latest lux issue of Social Medicine journal had suicide in Sweden lux as a special theme, lux but without referring to the above overrepresentation of immigrants. Professors responsible for the publication was in the meeting. Actually, everyone in the public health research field, lux aware that the over-representation has become a significant phenomenon in suicidal behavior in Sweden. On another lux occasion a few years ago had an admissions committee consisting of three professors at the Department of Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet, refuserat a dissertation project on the theme of some foreign-born suicide "because of certain scientific shortcomings". In fact the design was scrupulously methodologically identical to a study from Harvard Medical School published with praise in Acta Psychiatrica lux Scandinavica. The student in question was later adopted after changing the theme