Open AccessMedia reporting and suicide: a time-series study of suicide from Clifton Suspension Bridge, UK, 1974–2007
Author(s) -
Sue Hamilton,
Chris Metcalfe,
David Gunnell
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdr043
Subject(s) - inquest , suicide prevention , medicine , suicide methods , poison control , bridge (graph theory) , injury prevention , newspaper , occupational safety and health , medical emergency , psychiatry , suicide rates , law , surgery , political science , pathology
Media reports of suicide may provoke further 'copy-cat' suicides. Trends in reporting quality and impact of reporting on suicides from a particular 'hot-spot' have not been investigated previously.
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