Suicide and Ambient Temperature in East Asian Countries: A Time-Stratified Case-Crossover Analysis
Author(s) -
Yoonhee Kim,
Ho Kim,
Yasushi Honda,
Yue Leon Guo,
BingYu Chen,
JongMin Woo,
Kristie L. Ebi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1409392
Subject(s) - demography , confounding , apparent temperature , poison control , suicide methods , suicide prevention , crossover study , injury prevention , medicine , multilevel model , suicide rates , geography , statistics , environmental health , meteorology , mathematics , alternative medicine , pathology , sociology , relative humidity , placebo
A limited number of studies suggest that ambient temperature contributes to suicide; these studies typically focus on a single nation and use temporally and spatially aggregated data.
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