Resumen

RUIZ ARANGO, José Antonio  y  KU PECHO, Violeta. Factores asociados al suicidio en Panamá según casos realizados en la Morgue Judicial 2011- 2013. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2015, vol.32, n.1, pp.45-50. ISSN 2215-5287.

Suicide is a multifactorial health issue and has severe consecuences among society, the presentation rate has increased as decades pass by. The objetive os the present article is to describe suicede phenomenon from the Panama´s morque legal medicine´s point of view. Its about a retrospective descriptive study of the autopsy studies between 2011 and 2013, from which along the demographic data, the autopsy information regarding the cause os death, the toxicologic reports and relatives interviews were documented and included to find out the posible trigger that lead the person to commiting suicide. There was an increase on the mortality rate because of suicide and as for the difference between genders; it was 3 males por every women. The average of people who commited was 41 years of age and people who worked as techniques or had technical professions were more likely to kill themselves. The more frecuent cause of death was by hanging themselves among both sexes, the reason for becoming suicidal was because of passional issues for males and terminal diseases for women. Finally, the data source for suicidal deaths in the legal medicine field is a very important tool for the analysis of this type of cases, that helps diminish the under registration of the cases and will help for future protocols or statistics regarding suicidal attempts and suicides commited.

Palabras clave : Suicide; epidemiology; Panama; violent deaths.

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