Open AccessIs there a rural suicide problem?
Author(s) -
Cantor Christopher H.,
Coory Michael
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.946
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1753-6405
pISSN - 1035-7319
DOI - 10.1111/j.1753-6405.1993.tb00173.x
Subject(s) - demography , suicide prevention , rural area , injury prevention , poison control , occupational safety and health , geography , suicide rates , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , rural population , environmental health , socioeconomics , gerontology , sociology , pathology
Suggestions that youth suicide rates are disproportionately higher in rural areas were explored using Queensland cause‐of‐death data supplied by Queensland Health for the years 1986 to 1990. Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) were compared across three zones: urban, provincial and rural, for three age bands: all ages, 15 to 19 years and 20 to 29 years, for each sex. This Queensland study did not find a statistically significant excess of rural youth suicides. Further study of this phenomenon involving other states is called for.