Employment status and suicide
The complex relationships between changing unemployment rates and death rates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11171539 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul S F Yip (0000-0002-7635-7407, Hong Kong Jockey Club, corresponding author), Eric D Caine (University of Rochester) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 733-736 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-005X • E-ISSN: 1470-2738 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/jech.2010.110726 |
| PMID | 21115474 |
| OpenAlex | W2064319010 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 15 |
BACKGROUND: Existing studies have described a strong correlation between unemployment rates and suicide rates, but the exact mechanisms through which they may interact with one another remain unknown. METHOD: This study examined the complex relationships between suicide rates and both regional unemployment rates and individual employment status during times of economic recession (2000-3) and recovery (2003-6) in Hong Kong. RESULTS: Despite the strong correlation (0.86) between the unemployment rates and suicide rates for 2000-6, the rates of suicides within the employed and unemployed groups moved in the opposite direction from the overall population trend. That is, the suicide rate among the unemployed decreased during economic recession and increased during recovery. CONCLUSION: It is important to be able to distinguish precisely between population-level concepts, such as rates, and individual-level characteristics, such as employment status, when considering the development of evidence-based suicide prevention strategies
Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Great recession · Injury prevention · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Mortality rate · Poison control · Population · Recession · Suicide prevention · Suicide rates · Unemployment · Unemployment rate · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Surgery
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
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| Citations per year | 1.15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2022 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |