Citation

Recker NL, Moore MD. Social determinants of child health and wellbeing 2016; 25(1): 78-91.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Flinders University)

DOI

10.1080/14461242.2015.1101703

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Suicide is a very contemporary issue in the USA. Despite the social characteristics related with suicide, the discipline of sociology has remained relatively silent on the issue. This paper builds upon Durkheim's approach by using social capital theory as a framework to examine suicide rates across 2688 US counties. Using ordinary least-squared regression modelling, we found that counties with higher rates of social capital, diversity, and population density experienced lower suicide rates. Counties that had higher levels of divorce, unemployment, poverty, education, and median age experienced higher suicide rates. © 2015 Taylor & Francis.

Language: en

Keywords

suicide; mortality; health; Social capital; US counties; Emile Durkheim