TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Cluster Suicides Among Unemployed Persons in Australia Over the Period 2001-2013
JO  - Social indicators research
A1  - Milner, A.
A1  - Too, L.S.
A1  - Spittal, M.J.
SP  - 189
EP  - 201
VL  - 137
IS  - 1
N2  - There has been no research on whether particularly vulnerable people such as the unemployed are prone to being in a suicide cluster (defined as an unusually high number of suicides occurring in a defined geographical area and/or over a relatively brief period of time). We investigated the presence of unemployed suicide clusters in Australia over the period 2001-2013 using a Poisson discrete scan statistic approach. Spatial, temporal and spatial/temporal clusters comprised 13.4, 4.4 and 1.7% of all unemployed suicides respectively. These results suggest the importance of targeting preventative efforts in where large numbers of unemployed persons who have died by suicide resided before death. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0303-8300
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1604-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -