The social and economic burden associated with suicide mortality in Russia as a science based evidence for development of suicide prevention programs

The magnitude of socioeconomic burden of premature death from suicides of Russian residents before age 55 (for women) and 60 (for men) in 2009 and for the specific groups of youth and young adults was assessed using the years-of-life-lost (YLL) method. The total of YLL was 723 per 100000 population (89% for men) or 0.46 GDP. The high burden is particularly notable in the 15-29 age group (i.e., 1008 per 100000 age specific population) where up to 30% of the total YLL are due to suicide. Suicide ranks first as a burden of external death among youth. So we can assume cost-saving effect of national or regional suicide prevention programs.