Citation

Rihmer Z, Rutz W, Barsi J. Acta Psychiatr. Scand. 1993; 88(6): 391-394.

Affiliation

In- and Outpatient Department of Psychiatry No. XIII, National Institute for Psychiatry and Neurology, Budapest, Hungary.

Comment In:

Acta Psychiatr Scand 2001;103(3):238-9

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8310845

Abstract

Based on the well-known relationship between depression and suicide, we investigated the regional distribution of the suicide rate, rate of diagnosed depression and prevalence of working physicians in Hungary. A strong significant positive correlation was found between the rate of working physicians and rate of diagnosed depression, and both parameters showed a strong significant negative correlation with the suicide rate. The more physicians per 100,000 inhabitants, the better is the recognition of depression and the lower is the suicide rate in the given region. The rate of working doctors was significantly higher in the counties located in western Hungary, which may have a role in the lower suicide mortality in this area of the country.

Language: en