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Suicide in Australia: some good news
Author(s) -
Goldney Robert D
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00582.x
Subject(s) - medical emergency , criminology , political science , psychology , medicine
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 18 September 2006 185 6 304-304 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2006 www.mja.com.au Editorials people aged 15–24 years, for whom there was a reduc rates of about 50% — from 19.3 to 9.6 per 1 and 2004. These figures have not achieved the media they warrant. Although suicide accounts for only 1.6% of all death it comprises more than 20% of deaths for men aged be 39 years, and men remain four times more likely than by suicide, with overall age-standardised rates of 16. Current data are encouraging, but no reason for complacency