Resource Tag: CANADA. QUEBEC

This article briefly reviews two rulings by the Quebec Superior Court dealing with the suicide of an insured party less than two years after reinstatement of the insured’s policy. Contradictory judgments were rendered.

This paper develops a dynamic model of household bargaining & uses it to motivate an empirical analysis of the impact changes in Canadian laws regarding the allocation of family assets upon divorce had on female suicide. Using time series data, it is shown in Ontario, the passage of Canadian legislation improving women’s rights to assets […]

Five variables were investigated in the evaluation of Suicide Prevention Weeks held in 1999, 2000, & 2001 in Quebec: exposure to the campaign, previous suicide ideation, knowledge, attitudes, & intentions. After the 2000 campaign, a telephone survey conducted with a representative sample of 1,020 men revealed that only those actually exposed to the campaign had […]

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Context  A large body of evidence suggests that predisposition to suicide, an important public health problem, is mediated to a certain extent by neurobiological factors. Objective  To investigate patterns of expression in suicide with and without major depression and to identify new molecular targets that may play a role in the neurobiology of these conditions. […]

Research has shown both childhood physical and sexual abuse to be associated with later suicide attempts, although some studies have not supported these findings. However, few studies have investigated differences in physical and sexual abuse histories among single and multiple suicide attempters. The goals of the current study were two-fold: (a) to replicate previous findings […]

Physicians in Quebec were surveyed regarding the frequency with which they saw adolescents with mental health problems such as depression, suicidal thoughts, behavioural disorders, substance abuse, attempted suicide, or suicide during the last year or since they started practice. Most physicians had seen adolescents with mental health problems within the last year. More than 80% […]

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The authors examined cause-specific mortality in a cohort of 24,558 women with breast implants & 15,893 women who underwent other plastic surgery procedures in Ontario & Quebec between 1974 & 1989. Overall mortality was lower among women who received breast implants relative to the general population. In contrast, higher suicide rates were observed in both […]

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This is the 3rd version of a working paper

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This study was undertaken to describe the characteristics of adults aged 60 years & over who committed suicide in Quebec in 1998-1999. In this study, 42.6% of the suicide cases presented mental disorders at the time of their death, mainly depression. 65.3% would have been considered as having a mental disorder if sub-threshold depression cases […]