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CLASSIFYING POISONING DEATHS BY MOTIVATION: ANGLO‐SCOTTISH DIFFERENCES
Author(s) -
Barraclough B. M.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1974.tb07526.x
Subject(s) - accidental , suicide prevention , injury prevention , demography , poison control , incidence (geometry) , occupational safety and health , medicine , medical emergency , human factors and ergonomics , mortality rate , cause of death , psychiatry , psychology , pathology , sociology , physics , disease , acoustics , optics
The incidence of death by poisoning is the same in England and Scotland. The differences in the two countries' official statistics for the suicide rate, undetermined death and accidental death rates from poisoning differ. The differences are probably caused by varying medico‐legal procedures which classify deaths according to motivation.