@article{ref1,
title="Economic growth and suicide rate changes: A case in China from 1982 to 2005",
journal="European psychiatry",
year="2010",
author="Zhang, Jian and Ma, Junlai and Jia, C. and Sun, Jinhua and Guo, X. and Xu, A. and Li, Wenjun",
volume="25",
number="3",
pages="159-163",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: It is to estimate the trend of suicide rate changes during the past three decades in China and try to identify its social and economic correlates. METHODS: Official data of suicide rates and economic indexes during 1982-2005 from Shandong Province of China were analyzed. The suicide data were categorized for the rural / urban location and gender, and the economic indexes include GDP, GDP per capita, rural income, and urban income, all adjusted for inflation. RESULTS: We found a significant increase of economic development and decrease of suicide rates over the past decades under study. The suicide rate decrease is correlated with the tremendous growth of economy. CONCLUSION: The unusual decrease of Chinese suicide rates in the past decades is accounted for within the Chinese cultural contexts and maybe by the Strain Theory of Suicide.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0924-9338",
doi="10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.07.013",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2009.07.013"
}