Suicide among physicians in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, across one decade

Objective:To describe mortality by suicide among physicians in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, between 2000 and 2009.Methods:Secondary analysis of government mortality data. The variable of interest was “underlying cause of death”, specifically deaths classified by the ICD-10 as intentional self-harm (X60 to X84).Results:The analyses examined 2,297 declarations of death, among which suicide accounted for 50 cases, i.e., 1.7% of all causes of death. Women comprised 13.2% of the total sample and represented 24% of the death-by-suicide group, indicating an overrepresentation of women in the ...