Suicide rates in China during a decade of rapid social changes
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric EpidemiologyPublished 1 October 2005
Paul Yip, Kayuet Liu, Jianping Hu, Xiao Song
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National, urban, and rural suicide rates for both men and women decreased significantly for the period of 1991–2000; age-specific suicide rates, however, showed that there were different patterns of changes in suicide rates in rural and urban areas.
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Possible explanations that may account for the downward trends in suicide rates and increase in male to female gender ratio in urban area were provided. Longer historical studies are needed to reveal the relationship between macrosocial changes and the pattern of suicide.
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