The study commences with a question that epidemiology would regard as old' viz. whether suicide rates are higher in … rural areas or urban areas, and turns to applying an economic technique of analysis to studying regional suicide disparities …. Several dispersion measures are applied to time series male and female suicide rates, including economic inequality measures …

Mimicking the US in 1980 and 1990s, Brazil is a remarkable case of a major shift in homicides. After increasing … high. Thus, the large homicide shift in Brazil is produced by a particularly large and socially fragile cohort. -- Age …

Recent works in mainstream economic literature have attempted to explain social problems such as suicide and drug use … the physical and psychological health of enslaved workers in Brazil during the 19th century. Using archival material such … global capitalism. Suicide and substance abuse, as expected, were not uncommon among this group of miserable workers whose …