Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10471982 | Social Science & Medicine | 2010 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
⺠The increase in unemployment rate for the period 1997-2003 seems to fuel the emergence of charcoal burning suicide in both Taiwan and Hong Kong. ⺠The improvement in employment condition for the period 2003-2007 has delivered different suicide patterns in Taiwan and Hong Kong. We have seen a declining trend in overall suicide rate as well as charcoal burning suicide rate in Hong Kong; however, suicide rates continued to rise even after the improvement of the employment conditions in Taiwan. ⺠Suicide rates generally go up in time of increased unemployment rate, After it gets hold its ground in the community, the effect of improvement of employment condition is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for the suicide rate to follow. A wider perspective of other exogenous factors, including media and mental well being of the working population should be taken into account.
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Authors
Ying-Yeh Chen, Paul S.F. Yip, Carmen Lee, Hsiang-Fang Fan, King-Wa Fu,