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The economic burden and costs of suicide and self-harm in Sweden

THE ECONOMIC BURDEN AND COSTS OF SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM IN SWEDEN

The societal cost of suicide and self-harm in Sweden in 2022 was approximately €970 million, with productivity losses from paid work accounting for the largest share.

The aim is to estimate the direct and indirect costs of suicide and self-harm in Sweden in 2022 and to assess the burden of disease. The study used a prevalence-based cost-of-illness (COI) framework, drawing on national cause-of-death and patient registers using ICD-10 codes (X60–X84 for intentional self-harm and Y10–Y34 for events of undetermined intent), with a group-level bottom-up method and a limited societal perspective. Indirect costs were calculated using the human capital approach. The study included 1,569 suicides (1,254 coded X60–X84 and 315 coded Y10–Y34) and 18,615 cases of self-harm (10,993 and 7,622, respectively). The total annual economic burden was approximately €970 million, of which €897.4 million was attributable to suicide and €72.7 million to self-harm. Productivity losses from paid work accounted for 67% of the total cost. Among suicide costs, this share rose to 73%, while productivity losses from unpaid work, meaning household work, accounted for 26% and direct costs for 1%. Among self-harm costs, inpatient care accounted for 89%, specialist outpatient care for 7%, and ambulance services for 4%. When the monetary value of premature mortality and disability was also included, the total burden rose to approximately €2.7 billion. The poster states that strengthening mental health services, workplace prevention programmes, and suicide postvention support could reduce both the human and societal costs. The limitations listed include the combined assessment of confirmed cases and cases of undetermined intent, the inability to distinguish between fatal suicides and suicide attempts when calculating healthcare costs, and the use of the human capital approach.

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