Citation

Webb RT, Kapur N. Lancet Psychiatry 2015; 2(3): 196-197.

Affiliation

Centre for Mental Health and Risk, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; Centre for Suicide Prevention, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S2215-0366(14)00129-1

PMID

26359886

Abstract

The World Health Organization recently estimated that 804 000 people worldwide died by suicide during 2012. Suicide prevention experts have historically focused their attention on elevated risk during times of economic downturn. For instance, Stack and Haas estimated that more than 900 suicides in the USA were attributable to the sharp rise in redundancies that occurred in 1981–82 during the early years of the Reagan administration, and which pushed the national unemployment rate up to its highest level since the interwar Great Depression era....

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