Chen, Ying-Yeh; Yip, Paul S.F.; Lee, Carmen; Fan, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 71 (2010) 12, pp. 2083-2090
This study examines the impact of unemployment on suicide rates in Taiwan and Hong Kong during the period of rising unemployment (1997-2003) and its subsequent decline (2003-2007), with 2003 as the turning point. During these initial years of high unemployment, suicide rates increased markedly...