Citation

Huchcroft SA, Tanney BL. Int. J. Epidemiol. 1988; 17(4): 839-843.

Affiliation

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Oncology, Alberta Cancer Board, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Calgary, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, International Epidemiological Association, Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3225093

Abstract

The present study analysed changes in sex-specific suicide rates in Canada from 1971 to 1985. A significant increase in the male-to-female ratio of suicide rates was observed. Our analysis of sex-specific age-adjusted rates revealed that this increasing ratio was a function of both increasing male rates and decreasing female rates, but that the latter was more marked. This divergence of male and female rates within the last decade and a half parallels similar changes noted both in the US and in the majority of European countries, but contrasts with a pattern of converging rates throughout North America and much of Europe prior to 1970.

Language: en