Swedish Bird "about to jump?
Do not tell me back again! NO Sweden is the country with the highest suicide rate, not even the Western country with the highest rate. And the worst is not what I say every two to three (which I already it, eh!) But most insist on using it as a valid criticism to the Swedish welfare model (yes, yes, you have a social security pm but then, allah, you throw you out the window as you can ") I even had to endure certain university professors ...
suicide rates (per 100 000, by country and sex) WHO 2006
UKRAINE 46.7 / 8.4 44.6 SRI LANKA / MOLDOVA
8.16 6.30 / 4.8
CZECH REPUBLIC 05.27 / 6.8 05.24
CUBA / SWITZERLAND
12.0 26.5 / 10.6
DENMARK 2.20 / 7.2
AUSTRALIA 1.20 / 5.3
SWEDEN 9.18 / 8.1
URUGUAY 6.16 / 4.2
SPAIN 6.12 / 3.9
ARGENTINA 9.9 / 3.0
(In a ranking of 99 countries, Sweden is ranked # 35 in lasa male rate and rate # 23 in the feminine)
So how would be born this myth? For you see, 40 years ago Sweden was one of very few countries in the world to bring statistics on suicide. In 1960 the New York Times Magazine got a story about high rates registered in Switzerland and Sweden, highlighting the high level of economic welfare in both countries. A few months later, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dropped at a breakfast in Chicago that there is a European country with a highly interventionist state ("Fairly friendly"), where suicide rates have increased dramatically:
"This country has a record for socialistic Tremendous operation, Following a socialistic philosophy, and the record shows That Their rate of suicide has gone up and I think Almost unbelievably They Were Almost the nation Lowest in the world for That. Now, They Have More Than Twice Our rate. Drunkenness has gone up. Lack of ambition is discernible on all sides. Therefore, it With That kind of example, let's always remember Lincoln's admonition. Let's do in the Federal Government only Those Things That People Themselves Can not do at all, or not can so well do in Their individual capacities "
The president never said it was from Sweden but Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander found that was more than obvious that this was a Nordic country. And little use later explanations (or invitation to Norwegian Prime Minister made a visit to Esienhower Sueica to check that things were not equal so bad) the myth and was walking around the world. Finally
should be added that the rate varies widely from country to country depending on the degree of social taboo surrounding suicide (in many countries it is illegal with harsh penalties) and usually only refers to the cases with "success" and not the number of failed attempts.
If I do not think:
The myth about Sweden and suicide
World Health Organization. "Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex", December 2005
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