Which suicides increase during the economic crisis? A commentary and a proposal
Author(s) -
Enwuchola John
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of public health and epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2141-2316
DOI - 10.5897/jphe2015.0783
Subject(s) - unemployment , suicide rates , financial crisis , psychiatry , psychology , suicide prevention , development economics , political science , economics , medicine , medical emergency , economic growth , poison control , keynesian economics
Both suicide and economic crisis as terms are defined differently in scientific studies. Suicides before the crisis have several causes, and the proportion of such suicides during a crisis is unknown. Calculating these suicides as part of the purported economic crisis induced suicides may exaggerate the increase in the suicide rate. Suicide statistics is not reliable in all countries. Several years may pass before the economic crisis to make people conclude with a wish to and an act of committing suicide. People referred to hospitals before the crisis, during the crisis and some years after. The crisis could be characterized and compared according to objective and individually felt relation to deteriorating finances. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the complexity of the concept of suicide related to the economic crisis in Europe in 2007 to 2008 and propose a way to research this complexity
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