After several decades of decline, U.S. suicide rates have risen since 2005, a trend driven largely by increases among … 50 U.S. states to examine the role of economic factors in producing the recent rise in suicide rates. Unlike prior … studies, we examine trends in the total suicide rate and in the rate disaggregated by sex, age group and time period and …

A number of studies have investigated the presence of suicide clusters, but few have sought to identify risk and … protective factors of a suicide occurring within a cluster. We aimed to identify socio-demographic and contextual characteristics … of suicide clusters from national and regional analyses of suicide clusters. We searched the National Coroners …

Early-life parental death (PD) may increase suicide and other mortality risk in adulthood. The potential implications … of subsequent remarriage of the widowed parent (RWP) for suicide have not been well examined. Data came from the Utah … suicides. Cox models showed PD was associated with increased adult suicide risk before age 50, and with increased risk of …

Suicide is a complex global public health problem, yet few studies have examined local socio-cultural explanatory … models and other contextual factors surrounding suicide in low-and-middle-income countries. Such research is critical, as … suicide frequency and etiology, as well as care-seeking in the case of distress, differ contextually and by sub-groups within …

Previous research shows no consensus as to whether and how natural disasters affect suicide rates in their aftermath …. Using prefecture-level panel data of natural disasters and suicide in Japan between 1982 and 2010, we estimate both … contemporaneous and lagged effects of natural disasters on the suicide rates of various demographic groups. We find that when the …

Suicide rates in Greece (and other European countries) have been on a remarkable upward trend following the global … recession of 2008 and the European sovereign debt crisis of 2009. However, recent investigations of the impact on Greek suicide …–2011. The responsiveness of suicide to levels of fiscal austerity is established as a means of providing policy guidance on the …

The rate of suicide amongst Australia’s rural men is significantly higher than rural women, urban men or urban women …