TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - A cross-national study of the relationship between elderly suicide rates and urbaninzation
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Shah, Ajit
SP  - 714
EP  - 719
VL  - 38
IS  - 6
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2008.38.6.714
ID  - ref1
ER  -