Citation

Rosario ALC. Comp. Sociol. 2019; 18(5-6): 757-790.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Brill Academic Publishers)

DOI

10.1163/15691330-12341513

PMID

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Abstract

By focusing on the elderly suicide rates, this study lays out the different suicide regulation and prevention policies of three developed countries - Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea. The main goal is to compare and analyze how these policies, with disparate ways of handling suicide, influence elderly suicide rates in relation with their countries' respective differing suicide determinants. By applying the 'Method for Synthesizing about Public Policies' created by Morestin, Gauvin, Hogue, and Benoit to check the status of efficiency and of any issues of public policies, it concludes that South Korea shows promise, while Japan's suicide rates have certainly been scaling down. Conversely, in terms of the use of euthanasia, suicide rates in the Netherlands have been continuously rising. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019

Language: en

Keywords

suicide; Suicide; Japan; Elderly; Netherlands; South Korea; Prevention policy; comparative study; elderly care; Comparative analysis; The Netherlands; demographic trend; elderly population; regulatory approach; state role; demographic survey; policy approach; Regulation policy