Citation

Nordt C, Warnke I, Seifritz E, Kawohl W. Lancet Psychiatry 2015; 2(3): 239-245.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2215-0366(14)00118-7

PMID

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Abstract

BackgroundAs with previous economic downturns, there has been debate about an association between the 2008 economic crisis, rising unemployment, and suicide. Unemployment directly affects individuals' health and, unsurprisingly, studies have proposed an association between unemployment and suicide. However, a statistical model examining the relationship between unemployment and suicide by considering specific time trends among age-sex-country subgroups over wider world regions is still lacking. We aimed to enhance knowledge of the specific effect of unemployment on suicide by analysing global public data classified according to world regions.

Language: en