Principales causas del suicidio en médicos: Revisión de alcance.

Abstract

Introduction: The suicide is the fourth cause of death at world-wide level according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of the suicide in doctors is higher than the general population, around four hundred doctors commit suicide to the year, approximately a doctor commits suicide to the day. Materials and methods: The present article is a documentary revision of descriptive reach, have analyzed sixteen scientific articles, published between the 2011 and the 2021 on suicide in doctors. Results: The factors that ready to a doctor to commit suicide are related to the personal factors, factors of the conditions of work and factors associated to the own roll of being doctor. Conclusion: The suicide in doctors is a multifactorial problem depends on the personal antecedents and the conditions of work, within them mainly the difficulty to conciliate the dream.