مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري

Abstract :

The geography of suicide, which studies suicides -an unwanted type of death- and their results along with their geographical spread, in fact, is an interdisciplinary field of study that interests not only geography experts but also sociologists, psychologists, historians, demographers, health experts and so on.There are scarcely any publications in the geography of suicide in Turkey whereas it is just the opposite in the world. With this study, it is aimed to try to help increase the information about this new study field and make Turkish readers aware as much as possible. In this study, a global classification was made in accordance with the suicide rates, and also a review of geographical spread of suicides based on countries in the world. In this study, on a global scale, the reasons, results and reflections of the suicides were discussed, and they were reviewed on levels of age and gender. In this study, the suicides in Russia were reviewed nationally and locally, and the historical development of suicides in this country were discussed under the headings of czarism, capitalist socialist and post socialist periods. Why are the suicide rates in Russia higher than world average? Why are men more suicidal than women? What are the reasons of childsuicides? These were the questions of which answers were sought. With this study, which discusses the suicides in Russia, it is expected that the studies of the geography of suicides in Turkey shall be triggered.