@article{ref1,
title="A cross-national study of the relationship between elderly suicide rates and urbaninzation",
journal="Suicide and life-threatening behavior",
year="2008",
author="Shah, Ajit",
volume="38",
number="6",
pages="714-719",
abstract="There is mixed evidence of a relationship between suicide rates in the general population and urbanization, and a paucity of studies examining this relationship in the elderly. A cross-national study with curve estimation regression model analysis, was undertaken to examine the a priori hypothesis that the relationship between elderly suicide rates and urbanization would be curvilinear and follow an inverted U-shaped curve. There was a curvilinear relationship between male suicide rates in both the elderly age-bands and the percentage of the population living in urban areas, but this was not observed in females. A three-stage sequential model was developed to explain the observed relationship between suicide rates in elderly males and urbanization. The relationship between suicide rates in elderly females and urbanization.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0363-0234",
doi="10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.714",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.714"
}