Economic crisis and suicidal behaviour: The role of unemployment, sex and age in Andalusia, Southern Spain

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Córdoba Doña, Juan Antonio ^a,b   San Sebastián, Miguel ^b   Escolar Pujolar, Antonio ^a   Martínez Faure, Jesús Enrique ^c   Gustafsson, Per E ^b  

^a Salud y Políticas Sociales de Cádiz   (Spain)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Servicio 061   (Spain)

Author keywords

Andalusia; Economic crisis; Spain; Suicide attempts; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELFARE REFORM; AGE; ECONOMIC INSTABILITY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC CRISIS; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREND STUDY; UNEMPLOYMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; YOUNG ADULT; AGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; POPULATION; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANDALUCIA; SPAIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPAIN; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904532023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-13-55     Document Type: Article

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