SUICIDE: “every 40 seconds, someone loses their life to suicide”

Survey of Life Events Prior to Suicide Attempt

Abstract Stressful life events are seen frequently, prior to suicide in persons who attempted. This study was done to survey problematic life events prior to suicide attempt in patients who had been admitted in emergency ward of Razi Hospital in Rasht 2001. To achieve this goal , 173 patients who had been admitted due to suicide attempt were interviewed by two trained male and female general ...

Suicide in later life.

Life Course Indicator: Suicide

Notes on calculation: The ICD-10 codes denoting suicide are X60X84, Y87.0, and U03. In the NVSS mortality data set, the ICD-10 codes have been grouped into 39 underlying causes of death, one of which is suicide and can be used to calculate this indicator. Because the suicide rate for people under 10 is very small and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) WISQARS system only provi...

Suicide and Life Insurance

In this paper, we investigate the nexus between life insurance and suicide behavior using OECD cross-country data from 1980 to 2002. Through semiparametric instrumental variable regressions with fixed effects, we find that for the majority of observations, there exists a positive relationship between suicide rate and life insurance density (premium per capita). Since life insurance policies pay...

Late-life suicide.

Suicide rates for older people are increasing worldwide, thereby creating a major public health concern. There has been an absence of public policy and research interest in this area, although the needs are pressing and promise to be even more so. Besides the fact that a worldwide aging population means more older people, and thus more late-life suicides, the percentage of older people who kill...