As a result of the strong link between mental illness and suicide, the diagnosis and treatmentof psychiatric disorders have been always considered a first-choice strategy in the prevention of suicide.However, prevention may take advantage from the study of other factors that may help to explaininequalities in the suicide rates between countries and fluctuations over time. The aim of the presentchapter is to review empirical research which has investigated the impact of economic crises andrecession on suicide. To this goal we performed careful MedLine and PsycINFO searches from 1980 to2010. Our analysis of the literature indicates that there is no strong evidence that a recession in theeconomy is a causal factor for suicide. © 2012 Bentham Science Publishers. All rights reserved.
Economic crises and suicide / M., Innamorati; Pompili, Maurizio; D., Lester; B., Yang; M., Amore; C., Di Vittorio; Girardi, Paolo. - ELETTRONICO. - (2012), pp. 30-39. [10.2174/978160805049911201010030].
Economic crises and suicide
POMPILI, Maurizio;GIRARDI, Paolo
2012
Abstract
As a result of the strong link between mental illness and suicide, the diagnosis and treatmentof psychiatric disorders have been always considered a first-choice strategy in the prevention of suicide.However, prevention may take advantage from the study of other factors that may help to explaininequalities in the suicide rates between countries and fluctuations over time. The aim of the presentchapter is to review empirical research which has investigated the impact of economic crises andrecession on suicide. To this goal we performed careful MedLine and PsycINFO searches from 1980 to2010. Our analysis of the literature indicates that there is no strong evidence that a recession in theeconomy is a causal factor for suicide. © 2012 Bentham Science Publishers. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
