Suh, Guk-Hee and Gega, Lina orcid.org/0000-0003-2902-9256 (2017) Suicide Attempts among the Elderly in East Asia. International Psychogeriatrics. pp. 707-708. ISSN 1041-6102
Abstract
Among the one million suicide deaths worldwide each year, as many as 60% occur in Asia. The World Health Organization (WHO) found higher suicide rates among the elderly in rapidly industrialized Asian countries such as China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, compared to the corresponding rates of recently industrializing Asian countries like Vietnam and Sri Lanka (WHO, 2014). As a case in point, suicide rates in South Korea have been the highest in the world since 2003 and are rising especially among older people (Hong & Knapp, 2014). Suicide attempts and older age are strong predictors of completed suicide (Simon et al., 2013; Szanto et al., 2002) and, as such, are important in guiding our efforts for suicide prevention; however, most epidemiological studies focus on completed suicides across all ages rather than understanding the reasons behind suicide attempts in older populations
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Hull York Medical School (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2017 09:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:37 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610217000333 |
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Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1041610217000333 |
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