Suicide Prevention Needs to Be a Top Japanese National Priority
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2133076 |
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| Authors | Ueno Reis, Rei Ueno (0000-0002-9754-6792), Nobuko Adachi (0000-0001-7218-3596) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 24 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466011011454 |
| OpenAlex | W4410182655 |
| Language | EN |
The number of deaths by suicide in Japan on March 1, 2010 was 138. The current administration had monitored the total number of daily suicides in 2004 and 2008, but this was the highest daily total. This does not include the number of deaths by car accidents on that day. The average number of deaths due to car accidents in 2009 was 4,914, or about 13 people per a day. The suicide rate is almost ten times higher than the rate of deaths by car accidents. This article is a plea to recognize and confront this social problem
Medical emergency · Health and Wellbeing Research · Medicine · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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