Any estimation by gender and religious breakdown? I know the WHO Report 2012 stats but I think it's quite low and there may be severe under-reporting. My hypothesis (well, subject to your criticism) is that Hindu may be highest, followed by Christians and Buddhists (and those Chinese religious/cultural groups like Taoism, etc) (probably, just probably, about similar rate), and the lowest is Islam. Any idea of our practice now in terms of reporting? What I was told is that as long as the sergeant of the nearest police station issues the "permit mengubur", things can proceed. The police is more interested whether there is any foul play involved. If there is none, they are happy to assist in preparation of the necessary documentation to meet the various religious requirements to meet certain time-line planned. I am not sure on the procedure for those who passed away at home (e.g. elderly person, or suicide, etc). At certain places, a GP can visit the home and certify it's natural death, and we go to the police station with the GP certification to get the "burial permit". Please correct me if I am wrong. Is there any specific regulation under the laws governing this in Malaysia? From my experience, the administrator of the cemetery or a crematorium will need the police "burial permit" to proceed. There is little regulation for a columbarium though. There may be higher under-reporting for sub-urban and rural areas ... maybe.
Dear Bob,
perhaps these papers help you:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460490/
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/718367/
http://www.malaysiandigest.com/features/568013-suicide-is-the-2nd-leading-cause-of-death-among-youth-a-closer-look-at-the-situation-in-malaysia.html
Dear Bob,
perhaps these papers help you:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3460490/
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/718367/
http://www.malaysiandigest.com/features/568013-suicide-is-the-2nd-leading-cause-of-death-among-youth-a-closer-look-at-the-situation-in-malaysia.html
Do you have any specific questions to answer with this Bob? Note that the official statistics will have some error. There are usually a significant number of suicides that are not recorded as such (i.e., they will be 'accidental' or 'homicide' maybe even 'natural'). There will also be a very large number of people who made 'serious' suicide attempts but did not die. It's generally best to use these statistics with the knowledge that they are estimates and never tell the full story.
Best wishes!
Hi Keith, I am trying to do a research on Religiosity & Suicidality under Malaysia multi-racial context. WHO 2012 report quoted Malaysia as on the low side, about 3/100K population. Some studies estimated it to be about US (or world average level) - about 8-11/100K. I am not sure whether US has serious problem of under-reporting. I am sure Malaysia has some "serious" under-reporting issues including accuracy of data collation/reporting (I think WHO puts Malaysia under category "2" for reporting standard). I was just wondering whether there could be anyone who may have develop some assumptions to arrive at their estimate or provide some good basis how they arrive at their estimates. I am not sure how WHO arrives at its estimates too, or whether it does some adjustments on its end. Regards, [email protected]
Hi Bob,
The WHO is not so clear on this. They seem to get data from governments and do some further analyses. Government data in less developed countries tends to come from capital cities and better hospitals. So, the countryside is a big unknown. I'm attaching a recent paper of mine where we estimated suicide rates in Cambodia based on newspaper reports of suicides. It might sound a bit odd, but that approach, using capture-recapture statistics, worked reasonably well. However, their data quality is much below Malaysia's.
Good luck with your work, sounds interesting.
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