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Suicide assisted by right-to-die associations: a population based cohort study
Author(s) -
Nicole Steck,
Christoph Junker,
Maud Maessen,
Thomas Reisch,
Marcel Zwahlen,
Matthias Egger
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyu010
Subject(s) - demography , marital status , gerontology , medicine , disadvantaged , population , cohort , poison control , suicide prevention , neighbourhood (mathematics) , injury prevention , cohort study , cohabitation , logistic regression , geography , environmental health , sociology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , pathology , political science , law , archaeology
In Switzerland, assisted suicide is legal but there is concern that vulnerable or disadvantaged groups are more likely to die in this way than other people. We examined socio-economic factors associated with assisted suicide.

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