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Suicide in the Workplace
Author(s) -
Berman Alan L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
suicide and life‐threatening behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.544
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1943-278X
pISSN - 0363-0234
DOI - 10.1111/j.1943-278x.1993.tb00186.x
Subject(s) - citation , suite , center (category theory) , library science , psychology , computer science , law , political science , chemistry , crystallography
Workplace suicide is a tragic phenomenon that has grown in recent years in the United States. This article uses Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data to examine how the frequency of workplace suicides has changed over time and to analyze the distribution of workplace suicides among selected demographic groups and case categories. It introduces propensity ratios as a tool for measuring and comparing the proportional share of workplace suicides among groups.