The connection between divorce and suicide risk in Asia is unclear. To understand the contribution of cultural … transitions to suicide among the divorced, we compare age- and sex-specific suicide rates among divorced men and women from five … Pacific Rim populations: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the state of Victoria in Australia. On a cultural spectrum …

Taiwan experienced both a significant decrease and a significant increase in the suicide rate during the period 1986 …-, and urban-/rural-specific suicide rates for the period 1986–1999 in Taiwan were obtained and the year of 1993 is found to … suicide in both urban and rural Taiwan over the period of decline (1986–1993). The extent of the decrease was greater in rural …

the 1976–2000 patterns in overall suicide rates and suicide by firearms and other means. Unlike past research that … typically considers only one dimension, this analysis differentiates between spatial and temporal variation in suicide rates to … determine whether and how social correlates operate differently in these two contexts. Results indicate that suicide rates …

determined the statistically significant (r = 0.8; P = 0.005) relationship between suicide and Cu emissions from Cu–Ni smelters …

Opinion – Gift, ungratefulness and management. Suicide and desengagement at work The gift theory as it was elaborated …

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 …

While linkages between some macroeconomic phenomena (e.g. unemployment, GDP growth) and suicide rates in some countries … suicide, albeit in a single country. This study examines the impact of budget consolidation on suicide mortality across all …-run suicide increasing effects on the male population between 65 and 89 years of age. A one percentage point reduction in …

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … suicide mortality. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while relatively strict …