Japan’s suicide rate highlights the other health challenges stemming from the pandemic
By some measures, Japan has managed the covid-19 pandemic relatively well. Compared with other major countries, Japan has seen fewer infections, hospitalizations and deaths. But the country is facing another serious public health crisis — an alarming rise in suicide deaths, whose number now far exceeds the direct toll of the pandemic. In October alone, more people died by suicide (2,158) than the nation’s total of coronavirus deaths registered by the end of the month (1,765). The numbers reversed a recent trend that had seen Japan’s suicide rate fall to a 40-year low in 2019.
During the initial phase of the pandemic, Japan experienced a decline in suicide deaths.… Seguir leyendo »