The Impact of Social Expenditure on Sustainable Human Development

Empirical Evidence on the Suicide Deaths in a Developing Country

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ID13630316
AutoresMert Akyüz (0000-0002-2322-3384, Department of Economics, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Turkey, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Páginas302228241287816-302228241287816
Data de publicação2024-09-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00302228241287816
PMID39332824
OpenAlexW4402910386
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas70

Suicide has been a serious international public mental health problem and is one of the top twenty leading causes of death worldwide. This study aims to investigate the impact of social expenditure on suicide deaths in Turkiye as a developing country from 1982 to 2019. The Bounds Testing Approach to Cointegration and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) methods were used. The results indicated that social expenditure has a statistically significant and negative effect on total suicide and female suicide deaths, but it has a statistically insignificant and negative impact on male suicide death. The contribution of this study is to examine for the first time whether social expenditure has an impact on total, female, and male suicide mortality in Turkiye. Policymakers should regard increasing social spending in the government budget to prevent suicide deaths in Turkiye

Cointegration · Demographic economics · Developing country · Distributed lag · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Government (linguistics · Government Expenditure · Macroeconomics · Mental health · Poison control · Psychiatry · Public finance · Public health · Suicide prevention · Suicide rates · Employment and Welfare Studies · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology