Citation

Milner A, Too LS, Spittal MJ. Soc. Indicators Res. 2018; 137(1): 189-201.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11205-017-1604-6

PMID

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Abstract

There has been no research on whether particularly vulnerable people such as the unemployed are prone to being in a suicide cluster (defined as an unusually high number of suicides occurring in a defined geographical area and/or over a relatively brief period of time). We investigated the presence of unemployed suicide clusters in Australia over the period 2001-2013 using a Poisson discrete scan statistic approach. Spatial, temporal and spatial/temporal clusters comprised 13.4, 4.4 and 1.7% of all unemployed suicides respectively. These results suggest the importance of targeting preventative efforts in where large numbers of unemployed persons who have died by suicide resided before death. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Language: en

Keywords

Australia; suicide; Suicide; Unemployment; unemployment; Cluster; cluster analysis; spatiotemporal analysis; Spatial; Job loss; Temporal