After the pandemic is before the pandemic: Rethinking urban priorities, assumptions and planning approaches

Zhu, Xincheng; Xu, Jiaxiang

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20763

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“…The mental issue was larger during the initial stages of the lockdown but tended to decrease with adaptation [78,79]. However, higher-level mental issue were recorded when transitioning to the post-lockdown stage, where individuals were required to integrate the return to a pre-pandemic lifestyle with newly acquired needs (e.g., "new normal") [80][81][82]. Thus, a part of individuals might suffer from large stress due to transforming their lifestyles among periods, pre-pandemic, restriction during the pandemic and transitioning to new normal after the pandemic.…”

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Trends in Suicidal Mortality and Motives among Working-Ages Individuals in Japan during 2007–2022

Matsumoto,

Motomura,

Onitsuka

et al. 2023

EJIHPE

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Suicides in Japan consistently decreased from 2009–2019, but increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. To identify causes of increasing suicides, age-dependent and temporal fluctuations of suicide mortality rate per 100,000 (SMRP) in working-age generations (20–59 years) disaggregated by suicidal motives (7-categories; 52-subcategories) and sex from 2007 to 2022, were analyzed by analysis of variance and joinpoint regression, respectively, using the government suicide database “Suicide Statistics”. The SMRP of 20–29 year-old males and 20–49 year-old females began to increase in the late 2010s. SMRPs of these high-risk groups for suicides caused by depression (the leading suicidal motive for all groups) began increasing in the late 2010s. Economic-related, employment-related, and romance-related problems contributed to the increasing SMRPs in 20–29 males in the late 2010s. Romance-related and family-related problems contributed to the increasing SMRPs of 20–29 females in the late 2010s. Increasing SMRPs caused by child-raising stress in 20–39 year-old females from the late 2010s was a remarkable finding. In contrast, SMRPs of 30–59 year-old males consistently decreased until 2021; however, in these groups, SMRPs for suicides caused by various motives sharply increased in 2022. The consistent increase in SMRPs of high-risk groups from the late 2010s to the pandemic suggest recent socioeconomic and psychosocial problems in Japan possibly contributed to the increasing SMRPs in these high-risk groups independently of pandemic-associated factors, whereas the SMRPs of males of 30–59 years were probably associated with the ending of the pandemic rather than pandemic-associated factors.

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