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Uses Of Modern Health Information To Improve Women’s Health

Challenge #2

A project by

Marwa Qabeel

Investigating the suicide rates for women of MENA region and the health care facilities that could reduce these rates.

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Project AIM

Mental health services availability that lead to improve women’s health.

HYPOTHESES

Mental health of women in MENA region countries improve when greater access to mental health facilities is available.
Some countries maybe have higher crude suicide rates among women more than the other countries due to wars.
Shortage in mental health facilities in countries with political conflicts or war zones is definitely going to increase suicides rates.

Motivation

Investigating if the increasing or decreasing of mental health care facilitates one of the most important factors that affect suicide rates among women.

Data characteristics

Crude suicide rates for women in 19 country from Middle East and North Africa.

CRUDE SUICIDE RATE is the total number of deaths to residents in a specified geographic area (country, state, county, etc.) divided by the total population for the same geographic area (for a specified time period, usually a calendar year) and multiplied by 100,000.

These rates represents the rate for each country in 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2016.

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Analysing and processing data:

Numbers of the human resources (Psychiatrists working in mental health sector) have been slightly increased between 2011 and 2014.

By looking into crude suicide rates between 2010 and 2015 we will notice that there is a drop in crude suicide rates.

Approaching hypothesis 1:

The attempts to increase the number of psychiatrists who are going to help women with mental conditions which can led them to suicide, can affect positively on decreasing the number of suicides rates.

Some countries have a slightly change in rates, other countries have observational drop in suicide rates and there are some didn’t witness any change or stayed at constraint condition.

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Approaching hypothesis 2:

Some countries have higher risk factors for Suicides rates because of war Ex: Yemen

But this can’t apply for all of the countries as some countries which are non war zones surprisingly have higher suicide rates Ex: Turkey and Morocco.

Morocco” has the second highest values for “Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) in 2010” (4.7), “Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) in 2005” (6.3), and “Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) in 2000” (8.1) and the third highest values for “Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) in 2016” (3.4) and “Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) in 2015” (3.6)

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Approaching hypothesis 3:

Shortage in mental health facilities in countries with political conflicts or war zones has led to increase in suicides rates for some countries.
Yemen” has the highest value for “Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) in 2016” (5.6).
Psychiatrists working in mental health sector (per 100,000) in 2014” has the lowest value for “Yemen” (0.21).

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But this don’t apply perfectly for all as for Syria Which has gone through fatal war since 2011, has the lowest average value for “Crude suicide rates (per 100 000 population) from 2000 to 2016.

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References:

Suicide rate estimates, crude Estimates

by country dataset from World health organization

(http://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.MHSUICIDEv?lang=e)

Human resources Data

by country from WHO

(http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHHR?lang=en)

Spreadsheet of the data analysis

(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets

/d/1QM0pXHgueEq-9dGoVtify096FdK-awXOB4893wFDlp0/edit?usp=sharing)

Cover Photo Credit: by rawpixel on Unsplash

Conclusion:

Increase the number of psychiatrists can reduce the numbers of suicide rates.

Some countries have high suicide rates because of hard war conditions which make it difficult to secure the urgent help for women with mental health conditions.

The shortage of Mental health facilities because of war is not always the case, some countries with no political conflicts have high suicide rates.

Also there are some countries that undergo a hectic war and severe reduction in supplies and Mental care however they’ve very low suicide rates.