Alcohol and suicide in Switzerland - An aggregate-level analysis

Drug and Alcohol Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-37

  Gmel, Gerhard ^a   Rehm, Jürgen ^b   Ghazinouri, Amir ^a  

^a SWISS INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF ALCOHOL AND DRUG PROBLEMS   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregate level; Alcohol; ARIMA; Simultaneous equation modelling; Suicide; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032332543     PISSN: 09595236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09595239800187571     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Murphy GE, Wetzel D. The lifetime risk of suicide in alcoholism. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1990; 47:383-392.
2. Roy A. Suicide among alcoholics. Int Rev Psychiatry 1992;4:211-216.
3. Duffy J, Kreitman N. Risk factors for suicide and undetermined death among in-patient alcoholics in Scotland, Addiction 1993;88:757-766.
4. Rossow I, Amundsen A. Alcohol abuse and suicide: a 40-year prospective study of Norwegian conscripts. Addiction 1995;90:685-691.
5. Rossow I. Alcohol and suicide: beyond the link at the individual level. Addiction 1996;91:1413-1416.
6. Duberstein PR, Conwell Y, Caine ED. Interpersonal stressors, substance abuse, and suicide. J Nerv Ment Dis 1993;181:80-85.
7. Heikkinen ME, Aro HM, Henriksson MM, Isometsa ET, Sarna SJ, Kuoppasalmi KI, Lonnqvist JK. Differences in recent life events between alcoholic and depressive nonalcoholic suicides. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1994;18:1143-1149.
8. Murphy GE, Wetzel RD, Robins E, McEvoy L. Multiple risk factors predict suicide in alcoholism. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1992;49:459-463.
9. Norström T. Alcohol and suicide in Scandinavia. Br J Addict 1988;83:553-9.
10. Norström T. The impact of alcohol, divorce, unemployment on suicide: a multilevel analysis. Soc Forces 1995;74:293-314.
11. Norström T. Alcohol and suicide: a comparative analysis of France and Sweden. Addiction 1995;90:1463-1469.
12. Rossow I. Suicide, alcohol, and divorce; aspects of gender and family integration. Addiction 1993;88:1659-1665.
13. Skog OJ, Elekes S. Alcohol and the 1950-90 Hungarian suicide trend: is there a causal connection? Acta Sociol 1993;36:33-76.
14. Skog OJ, Teixeira Z, Barrias J, Moreira R. Alcohol and suicide: the Portuguese experience. Addiction 1995;90:1053-1061.
15. Lester D. Alcohol use and abuse, suicide and homicide. Psychol Rep 1993;73:346.
16. Lester D. Alcohol use and abuse in Canada and mortality from suicide. Can J Public Health 1993;84:402.
17. Lester D. Alcohol consumption and rates of personal violence in Australia. Drug Alcohol Depend 1992;31:15-17.
18. Skog OJ. Alcohol and suicide: Durkheim revisited. Acta Social 1991; 34:193-206.
19. Joubert CE. "Wet" or "dry" county status and its correlates with suicide, homicide, and illegitimacy. Psychol Rep 1994;74:296.
20. Müller R, Meyer M, Gmel G. Alkohol, Tabak und illegale Drogen in der Schweiz 1994-1996. Lausanne: Schweizerische Fachstelle für Alkohol und andere Drogenprobleme, 1997.
21. Schüler G, Bopp M. Atlas der Krebsmortalität in der Schweiz. Basel: Birkhäuser, 1997.
22. Spuhler T, Michel K. Suizid. In: Weiss W, ed. Gesundheit in der Schweiz. Zürich: Seismo, 1993:337-346.
23. Box GEP, Jenkins GM, Reinsel, GC. Time series analysis: forecasting and control. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994.
24. Greene WH. Econometric analysis. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1993.
25. Granger CWJ, Newbold P. Forecasting economic time series. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1977.
26. Yajima Y. On an effect of overdifferencing on the prediction of ARIMA processes. In: Marusital K, ed. Recent developments in statistical inference and data analysis. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1980:335-345.
27. Box GEP, Jenkins GM. Time series analysis: forecasting and control. Oakland, California: Holden Day, 1976.
28. Raffalovich L. Detrending time series. Sociol Method Res 1994;22:492-519.
29. Draper NR, Smith H. Applied regression analysis. New York, NY: Wiley, 1966.
30. Pyndyck RS, Rubinfeld DL. Econometric models and econometric forecasts. Singapore: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
31. Ljung GM, Box GEP. On a measure of lack of fit in time series models. Biometrika 1978;66:297-303.
32. Skog OJ. Testing causal hypothesis about correlated trends: pitfalls and remedies. Contemp Drug Probl 1988;15:565-606.
33. Liu LM, Hanssens DM. Identification of multiple-input transfer function models. In: Communications of statistical theoretic methods, Vol. 11, 1982.
34. Lehtonen R, Pahkinen EJ. Practical methods for design and analysis of complex surveys. Chichester: Wiley, 1994.
35. Yang B. The economy and suicide. Amer J Econ Sociol 1992;51: 87-99.
36. Gruenewald PJ, Ponicki WR, Mitchell PR. Suicide rates and alcohol consumption in the United States, 1970-89. Addiction 1995;90:1063-1075.
37. Wassermann IR. The effects of war and alcohol consumption patterns on suicide: United States. Soc Forces 1989;68:513-530.
38. Rossow I. Suicide, alcohol and divorce: a response to Dr Lester's comment. Addiction 1995;90:986-988.
39. Gmel G. Konsum von Schlaf- und Beruhigungsmitteln in der Schweiz: Nehmen Frauen mehr Medikamente oder sind mehr Männer erwerbstätig? Z Gesundheitswiss 1997; 5:14-31.
40. Norström T. A time series analysis of the Swedish suicide rate 1915-1968. In: Bergryd U, Janson CG, eds. Sociological miscellany. Essays in honour of Gunnar Boalt. Stockholm: University of Stockholm, 1987:142-159.
41. Lester D. Suicide, alcohol and divorce: a comment. Addiction 1995;90:985-986.
42. Koopmans LH. The spectral analysis of time series. New York: Academic Press, 1974.
43. Priestley MB. Spectral analysis and time series, Vols I and II. London: Academic Press, 1981.
44. Yang B, Lester D. Is there a natural suicide rate for a society? Psychol Rep 1991;68:322.
45. Popper K. Logik der Forschung. Tübingen: Mohr, 1966.