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Citation

John EB. J. Public Health Epidemiol. 2016; 8(5): 82-86.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Academic Journals)

DOI

10.5897/JPHE2015.0783

PMID

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Abstract

Both suicide and economic crisis as terms are defined differently in scientific studies. Suicides before the crisis have several causes, and the proportion of such suicides during a crisis is unknown. Calculating these suicides as part of the purported economic crisis induced suicides may exaggerate the increase in the suicide rate. Suicide statistics is not reliable in all countries. Several years may pass before the economic crisis to make people conclude with a wish to and an act of committing suicide. People referred to hospitals before the crisis, during the crisis and some years after. The crisis could be characterized and compared according to objective and individually felt relation to deteriorating finances. The aim of the study is to demonstrate the complexity of the concept of suicide related to the economic crisis in Europe in 2007 to 2008 and propose a way to research this complexity.
Key words: Suicide, economic crisis, unemployment.

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Language: en

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