Was the economic crisis 1997–1998 responsible for rising suicide rates in East/Southeast Asia? A time–trend analysis for Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand

In 1997–1998 a widespread economic crisis hit the economies of many East/Southeast Asian countries; its impact on suicide rates across the region has not been systematically documented. We investigated the impact of the Asian economic crisis (1997–1998) on suicide in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, T...

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Published in:	Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 1322 - 1331
Main Authors:	Chang, Shu-Sen, Gunnell, David, Sterne, Jonathan A.C., Lu, Tsung-Hsueh, Cheng, Andrew T.A.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2009 Elsevier Pergamon Press Inc
Series:	Social Science & Medicine
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Adult and adolescent clinical studies Aged Alcohol use Asia, Southeastern - epidemiology Biological and medical sciences Divorce Divorce - statistics & numerical data Drinking behavior East Asia East/Southeast Asia Economic Crises Economic crisis Economics Far East - epidemiology Female GDP Gross Domestic Product Hong Kong Humans Impact analysis Japan Life satisfaction Male Males Marriage Medical sciences Medical sociology Mental health Middle Aged Miscellaneous Mortality Mortality rates Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Public health Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Rates Singapore Socioeconomic Factors Socioeconomic status South Korea Southeast Asia Statistics Suicide Suicide - ethnology Suicide - statistics & numerical data Suicide Economic crisis Time series Socioeconomic factors East Suicides & suicide attempts Taiwan Thailand Time series Trends Unemployment Young Adult South east Asia South Korea Singapore Hong Kong Asia China Japan Taiwan Korea Asia, Southeastern Far East Hong Kong China Thailand Suicide Socioeconomic factors Time series East/Southeast Asia Economic crisis Human Rate Trend Time variation 1998 1997 Trend analysis Social medicine Time analysis
ISSN:	0277-9536, 1873-5347
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