摘要：Injuries including those that are self-inflicted resultsin 12% of the world's burden of disease. In the case of attempted suicide, this attracts global disability adjusted life years lost (11%) throughout the World, while in the Caribbean, potential years of life lost represents 27%. These are manifested in the form of (i) microfracture of vertebrae; (ii) echimosis(from asphyxiation); (iii) long-term developmental, reproductive and systemic effects (from poisoning); inter alia.The aim of the studywas to analyze the impact of self-inflicting violenceon the well-being of individualsin the English-Speaking Caribbean.Information was obtainedvia field research(convenience and snowball sampling), police statistics using the Statistical Package for Social Scientists (SPSS)17.0 to analyze the data.Self-inflicting violence in the form of attem pted suicide has shown constant increase over the period 2005 (N=121) to 2006 (N=134), but a slight decline in 2007 (N=133). Attempted suicide was significantly dominant among female than male, especially those within the 10-44 age cohort. Males were more likely to fail at attempted suicide than their female counterparts wereover the period 2003-2007 (male = 225, female = 38). The method of suicide most practiced inJamaica over the period 2003-2008 was hanging, followed by shooting, poisoning and drowning. The least practiced m ethods were jumping and electrocution. In 2008, causes of such suicide m ethods were as a result of depression (19.1%), domestic matters (10.6%), mental disorder (8.5%), murder (2.1%), and unknown(59.6%). Self-inflicting violence (commonly drug overdose, cutting, hanging, poisoning, shooting)bears serious socio-medicalimplications and has economic impact on both individuals and states
