TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Assessing the quantitative impact of suicide on life expectancy in Hong Kong: 1986-2006
JO  - Archives of suicide research
A1  - Law, Chi-Kin
A1  - Yip, Paul S. F.
A1  - Huo, Yun
SP  - 284
EP  - 290
VL  - 14
IS  - 3
N2  - It is important to have a more complete understanding of the social and economic burden associated with suicide mortality. Apart from the usual year of life lost (YLL), we propose an alternative method, a life table approach to assess the impact of suicide and compare with the YLL approach from 1986 to 2006 in Hong Kong. The life-table approach is to assess the impact at a population level. It shows that the impact of suicides increased from 0.52% (0.30 years) to 0.62% (0.38 years) of life span for males aged 18 while the same figure for females kept at 0.4% (0.30 years) of lifespan over the period. A comparison with the YLL and some discussion are also given.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1381-1118
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2010.494148
ID  - ref1
ER  -