Author(s)

Afroze Shahnaz, Christopher Bagley^*, Padam Simkhada, Sadia Kadri

Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

The objectives of this review are to explore through a scoping analysis of published literature, the prevalence of suicidal ideation, attempts and suicide, and the correlates and presumed causes of such behaviours in Bangladesh, in order to develop a model of public health research and prevention. This type of review aims to contextualise existing knowledge, set it within a practice and policy context, and make recommendations for health care service delivery and evaluation. The evidence indicates an unusual pattern of completed suicide rates, those most at risk being younger women. The rate in adolescent girls is exceptionally high by international standards, and appears to reflect poverty, the low status of women, violence directed against girls and women, and forced marriages of young, teenage girls.

Bangladesh, Scoping Review, Suicidal Behaviours, Adolescents, Child Marriage, Public Health, Suicide Prevention

Shahnaz, A. , Bagley, C. , Simkhada, P. and Kadri, S. (2017) Suicidal Behaviour in Bangladesh: A Scoping Literature Review and a Proposed Public Health Prevention Model. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 254-282. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.57016.