TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Wars and suicides in Israel, 1948-2006
JO  - International journal of environmental research and public health
A1  - Oron Ostre, Israel
SP  - 1927
EP  - 1938
VL  - 9
IS  - 5
N2  - This paper reports the characteristics of suicides which occurred during the existential and the non-existential wars in Israel. It provides a first approximation of whether the suicide patterns in each war are consistent with the findings of Morselli and Durkheim, and whether their theoretical interpretations can serve as a preliminary guideline to explaining the Israeli case, which is characterized by short periods of war, social integration during some of the non-existential wars, and a sharp rise in post-war male suicide rates following all of the existential wars. Implications for further studies on the subject in Israel and elsewhere are discussed.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7827
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph9051927
ID  - ref1
ER  -