This paper compares admissions to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital, Trinidad and Tobago, for self-harm to a previous study done at the same site. There is an increasing incidence of this behaviour presenting to the hospital with the most significant increase seen in men in the 35–44-year age group.

Regional disaggregating of national statistics regarding homicide and suicide reveal geographic and ethnic variation of these mortality related behaviours. This suggests that victims of homicide and suicide have a different set of risk factors that are in part explained by where they are located geographically and prevention and analysis can only be addressed if the regional variations are understood and explained.