TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Association of general population suicide rates with urbanisation
JO  - Psychological reports
A1  - Shah, Ajit
SP  - 609
EP  - 612
VL  - 104
IS  - 2
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2941
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -