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Article: Employment status and suicide: The complex relationships between changing unemployment rates and death rates

TitleEmployment status and suicide: The complex relationships between changing unemployment rates and death rates
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Issue Date2011
PublisherBMJ Publishing Group. The Journal's web site is located at http://jech.bmjjournals.com/
Citation
Journal Of Epidemiology And Community Health, 2011, v. 65 n. 8, p. 733-736 How to Cite?
AbstractBackground: Existing studies have described a strong correlation between unemployment rates and suicide rates, but the exact mechanisms through which they may interact with one another remain unknown. Method This study examined the complex relationships between suicide rates and both regional unemployment rates and individual employment status during times of economic recession (2000-3) and recovery (2003-6) in Hong Kong. Results: Despite the strong correlation (0.86) between the unemployment rates and suicide rates for 2000-6, the rates of suicides within the employed and unemployed groups moved in the opposite direction from the overall population trend. That is, the suicide rate among the unemployed decreased during economic recession and increased during recovery. Conclusion: It is important to be able to distinguish precisely between population-level concepts, such as rates, and individual-level characteristics, such as employment status, when considering the development of evidence-based suicide prevention strategies.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/172257
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.9
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.091
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dc.contributor.authorYip, PSFen_US
dc.contributor.authorCaine, EDen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-30T06:21:00Z-
dc.date.available2012-10-30T06:21:00Z-
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.identifier.citationJournal Of Epidemiology And Community Health, 2011, v. 65 n. 8, p. 733-736en_US
dc.identifier.issn0143-005Xen_US
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dc.description.abstractBackground: Existing studies have described a strong correlation between unemployment rates and suicide rates, but the exact mechanisms through which they may interact with one another remain unknown. Method This study examined the complex relationships between suicide rates and both regional unemployment rates and individual employment status during times of economic recession (2000-3) and recovery (2003-6) in Hong Kong. Results: Despite the strong correlation (0.86) between the unemployment rates and suicide rates for 2000-6, the rates of suicides within the employed and unemployed groups moved in the opposite direction from the overall population trend. That is, the suicide rate among the unemployed decreased during economic recession and increased during recovery. Conclusion: It is important to be able to distinguish precisely between population-level concepts, such as rates, and individual-level characteristics, such as employment status, when considering the development of evidence-based suicide prevention strategies.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherBMJ Publishing Group. The Journal's web site is located at http://jech.bmjjournals.com/en_US
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dc.subject.meshAdulten_US
dc.subject.meshEconomic Recessionen_US
dc.subject.meshHong Kong - Epidemiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshHumansen_US
dc.subject.meshMiddle Ageden_US
dc.subject.meshMortality - Trendsen_US
dc.subject.meshSuicideen_US
dc.subject.meshUnemployment - Psychologyen_US
dc.subject.meshYoung Adulten_US
dc.titleEmployment status and suicide: The complex relationships between changing unemployment rates and death ratesen_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1136/jech.2010.110726en_US
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dc.identifier.volume65en_US
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