Quantifying the contributions of age, sex, methods, and urbanicity to the changing suicide rate trends in South Korea, 2001-2016.
Ying-Yeh ChenChi-Ting YangEun-Shil ChaFeng ShaPaul Siu Fai YipPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2020)
The ups and downs of suicide rates in South Korea were not uniform across different sociodemographic groups. Age, sex, method, and place of residence contributed differently to the changes in suicide rates. Suicide prevention measures can be more focused on certain age-sex-method-region subgroups.
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