Relación entre la eficacia de los planes y programas de salud pública municipales para la prevención del suicidio e intento de suicidio con su desempeño operativo y financiero en el departamento del Atlántico, Colombia, en el cuatrienio 2016 – 2019

Background. The objective of public health policies is to improve the health of the population by encouraging health promotion and maintenance activities, as well as improving the quality of care. Objectives. To evaluate the relationship between budget allocation and operational performance of public health programs with indicators of suicide and attempted suicide rates in the department of Atlántico, Colombia, for the period 2016-2019. Methods. Longitudinal analysis for the 22 municipalities of the department, using suicide and attempted suicide rates as outcome variable. A multiple linear regression model was developed to investigate the relationship between allocated budget and recorded activity performance and annual incidence rates of suicide and attempted suicide. Results. No association was found between budget allocation and operational efficiency of prevention programs on the incidence rates of suicide and attempted suicide in the municipalities of the department (F(2,18)= 1.178, p= 0.33, R2= .12). Conclusions. Several authors have pointed out that public health activities play an important role in the prevention of suicide and suicide attempts, but in this study no relationship was observed between greater budgetary allocation or operational efficiency of these activities in the municipalities and lower rates of suicide and suicide attempts in the population. It is likely that effective prevention of suicide and suicide attempts requires a more concerted and multi-institutional approach. These results refer to the department of Atlántico, Colombia, but have relevance for other territories developing similar programs.

• Autores: Quintero Mendoza, Dayana Paola; Conde Rivera, Mónica Tatiana
• Fecha de publicación: 2023
• Institución: Corporación Universidad de la Costa
• Repositorio: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.cuc.edu.co:11323/9946
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/11323/9946; https://repositorio.cuc.edu.co/
• Palabra clave: Suicide; Suicide attempt; Mental health; Public health; Suicidio; Intento de suicidio; Salud mental; Salud pública
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)