TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Inter-annual rainfall variations and suicide in New South Wales, Australia, 1964-2001
JO  - International journal of biometeorology
A1  - Nicholls, Neville
A1  - Butler, Colin D.
A1  - Hanigan, Ivan
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
VL  - 50
IS  - 3
N2  - The suicide rate in New South Wales is shown to be related to annual precipitation, supporting a widespread and long-held assumption that drought in Australia increases the likelihood of suicide. The relationship, although statistically significant, is not especially strong and is confounded by strong, long-term variations in the suicide rate not related to precipitation variations. A decrease in precipitation of about 300 mm would lead to an increase in the suicide rate of approximately 8% of the long-term mean suicide rate.
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SN  - 0020-7128
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-005-0002-y
ID  - ref1
ER  -