Suicide, recession, and unemployment

In the data Reeves and colleagues provide in their appendix, there is a temporal advance of the rise in suicides in relation to the rise in unemployment. [...]if a causative correlation really exists between the two, and since the cause should appear first and the effect should follow, then the inev...

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Published in:	The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 381; no. 9868; pp. 721 - 722
Main Authors:	Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N, Koupidis, Sotirios A, Siamouli, Melina, Grammatikopoulos, Ilias A, Theodorakis, Pavlos N
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Elsevier Ltd 02-03-2013 Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Economic Recession - statistics & numerical data Humans Internal Medicine Recessions Suicide Suicide - statistics & numerical data Suicides & suicide attempts
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Summary:	In the data Reeves and colleagues provide in their appendix, there is a temporal advance of the rise in suicides in relation to the rise in unemployment. [...]if a causative correlation really exists between the two, and since the cause should appear first and the effect should follow, then the inevitable conclusion should be that suicides cause unemployment and not vice versa.
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ISSN:	0140-6736 1474-547X
DOI:	10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60573-5