Suicidio, cuarta causa de muerte en Cárdenas

a descriptive and retrospective study of 45 cases notified by suicide in cárdenas municipality in 1998 and 1999 was conducted. the cards of compulsory declaration were reviewed to know the health area, age, sex, method used and address in order to visit the relatives of the deceased and to do a previously designed survey. suicide was the fourth cause of death in both years with rates of 33.8 and 24.l x 100 000 inhabitants, respectively. some riks factors that were associated with suicide and the methods used to commit it were described.