Predicting the Population Risk of Suicide Using Routinely Collected Health Administrative Data in Quebec, Canada: Model-Based Synthetic Estimation Study

JianLi Wang   ¹ , PhD ;   Fatemeh Gholi Zadeh Kharrat   ² , PhD ;   Geneviève Gariépy   ³ , PhD ;   Christian Gagné   ² , PhD ;   Jean-François Pelletier   ⁴ , PhD ;   Victoria Kubuta Massamba   ⁵ , PhD ;   Pascale Lévesque   ⁵ , MSci ;   Mada Mohammed   ¹ , BSc ;   Alain Lesage   ⁴ , MD

¹ Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

² Institut intelligence et données, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada

³ Centre for Surveillance and Applied Research, Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

⁵ Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada