Open AccessSeasonal variations: Risk factor of commiting suicide
Author(s) -
Časlav T. Milić
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns1008531m
Subject(s) - demography , suicide methods , seasonality , suicide rates , medicine , suicide prevention , injury prevention , poison control , medical emergency , ecology , sociology , biology
Suicide is a conscious and deliberate extermination of one's own life. Suicidal motives can be exogenous and endogenous. Exogenous factors are those from social and economic sphere, moral and political ones. There are numerous elements: demographic, socio-pathological, clinical-psychopathological and, in recent time, seasonal variations and meteorological characteristics are considered to be significant.