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Publication Date: 2008-Dec
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A Cross-National Study of the Relationship between Elderly Suicide Rates and Urbanization
Shah, Ajit
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v38 n6 p714-719 Dec 2008
There is mixed evidence of a relationship between suicide rates in the general population and urbanization, and a paucity of studies examining this relationship in the elderly. A cross-national study with curve estimation regression model analysis, was undertaken to examine the a priori hypothesis that the relationship between elderly suicide rates and urbanization would be curvilinear and follow an inverted U-shaped curve. There was a curvilinear relationship between male suicide rates in both the elderly age-bands and the percentage of the population living in urban areas, but this was not observed in females. A three-stage sequential model was developed to explain the observed relationship between suicide rates in elderly males and urbanization. The relationship between suicide rates in elderly females and urbanization.
Descriptors: Females, Suicide, Older Adults, Urban Areas, Urbanization, At Risk Persons, Correlation, Computation, Models, Gender Differences, Males
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