The correlation between rates of unemployment and the suicide rate in Mie Prefecture, Japan [2]

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 369-370

  Inoue, Ken ^a,b   Tanii, Hisashi ^a   Nishimura, Yukika ^a   Okazaki, Yuji ^a   Fukunaga, Tatsushige ^c   Abe, Shuntaro ^d   Yokoyama, Chika ^b   Kaiya, Hisanobu ^b   Nata, Masayuki ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Warakukai Corporation   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office   (Japan)

^d JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LETTER; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 36549045690     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e31815b4bdd     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Inoue K, Abe S, Okazaki Y, et al. Underlying factors for the rapid increase of suicide in Mie Prefecture, Japan. Med Sci Law. 2005;45:345-355.
2. Yoshioka N. Present status of suicide in Japan, and the preventive application: Report of a Grantin-Aid for Scientific Research. Tokyo: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan; 1997. [in Japanese].
3. Yamasaki A, Sakai R, Shirakawa T. Low income, unemployment, and suicide mortality rates for middle-age persons in Japan. Psychol Rep. 2005;96:337-348