@article{ref1,
title="Association of general population suicide rates with urbanisation",
journal="Psychological reports",
year="2009",
author="Shah, Ajit",
volume="104",
number="2",
pages="609-612",
abstract="There is mixed evidence of a relation for suicide rates in the general population with urbanisation. A cross-national study of 76 countries was undertaken examining the a priori hypothesis that the relation of the general population suicide rates with urbanisation, using data from the World Health Organization and United Nations, would be curvilinear and follow an inverted U-shaped curve, with a quadratic pattern. The predicted curvilinear relation was not found. This may have been due to major methodological limitations in cross-national studies, so this hypothesised curvilinear relationship may be better examined in longitudinal studies over time in individual countries undergoing urbanisation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2941",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}