The lancet. Psychiatry
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The lancet. Psychiatry · Mar 2015
Modelling suicide and unemployment: a longitudinal analysis covering 63 countries, 2000-11.
As with previous economic downturns, there has been debate about an association between the 2008 economic crisis, rising unemployment, and suicide. Unemployment directly affects individuals' health and, unsurprisingly, studies have proposed an association between unemployment and suicide. However, a statistical model examining the relationship between unemployment and suicide by considering specific time trends among age-sex-country subgroups over wider world regions is still lacking. We aimed to enhance knowledge of the specific effect of unemployment on suicide by analysing global public data classified according to world regions. ⋯ University of Zurich.