Does State Spending on Mental Health Lower Suicide Rates?

Ross, Justin M.; Yakovlev, Pavel A.; Carson, Fatima

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1687864

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“…As is evident in Table 3, there appears to be no consistent statistically significant relationship between handgun delay policies and homicides. While handgun delay policies may alter the purchase of legitimate firearms, around 80% of criminal offenders report obtaining firearms through secondary or illegal markets (Ross et al, 2012). This suggests that a policy designed to interrupt the legitimate sale of firearms will not have any bite in secondary or illegal markets, which may explain why we see no statistically discernible difference in homicides after a change in purchase delay policies.…”

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“…With respect to homicides, there is reason to doubt that a cooling-off effect would decrease violent deaths because the majority of criminals report obtaining firearms through a number of non-traditional channels including theft, family members or friends, or private sales on the secondary market (Cook et al, 2009;Ross et al, 2012). Concern about unregulated private sales has led many policy makers to work at closing the 'gun show loophole'.…”

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“…There is an extensive literature that maps the relationship of mental health to both crime and suicide (Edwards, 2013(Edwards, , 2014. To capture this in our regressions, we include the real per capita state mental health expenditures from Ross et al (2012). There is also reason to believe that both homicides and suicides in the time period in which we examine were affected not just by mental health spending but also by the rollout of new psycho-pharmaceuticals and antidepressants (Marcotte and Markowitz, 2011).…”

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Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun: The Effect of Mandatory Handgun Purchase Delays on Homicide and Suicide

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Nesson

Robinson

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The Economic Journal

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We exploit within-state variation across time in both the existence and length of statutory delaysboth explicit wait periods and delays created by licensing requirementsbetween the purchase and delivery of a firearm to examine the effect of purchase delays on homicides and suicides. We find that the existence of a purchase delay reduces firearm-related suicides by between 2% and 5% with no statistically significant increase in non-firearm suicides. Purchase delays are not associated with statistically significant changes in homicide rates.

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Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun: The Effect of Mandatory Handgun Purchase Delays on Homicide and Suicide

Edwards

Nesson

Robinson

et al. 2018

The Economic Journal

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“…Seven studies 12–14,17–20 targeted the United States, 6 studies 21–26 addressed European countries, 4 studies 11,15,27,28 investigated several Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, and 2 studies 16,29 examined cases in South Korea. Aside from three 12,13,17 pioneering studies, 16 of the articles were published after 2008, probably due to increased attention to the relationship between economic recession and its detrimental impacts on health outcomes.…”

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The Impacts of Social Protection Policies and Programs on Suicide: A Literature Review

Kim

2018

Int J Health Serv

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Despite vigorous interest in showing the association between economic determinants and suicide, not many studies have focused on the social protection that can moderate the detrimental impact of the economic environment on suicide. This article is the first to review the relationship between suicide and social protection. In this article, I summarize the empirical findings and theoretical approaches in published papers on the relationship between suicide and social protection, and I identify knowledge gaps for future studies. The review included all quantitative and qualitative articles published in peer-reviewed journals, regardless of study setting, language, and time period. Among 19 papers meeting the inclusion criteria, 16 studies reported at least one negative association, 2 studies failed to prove a statistical association, and 1 study showed ambiguous results. However, due to the heterogeneity of contexts, the diversity of indicators of social protection, and the paucity of theoretical mechanisms for interpreting the results, further research is required in this area.

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“…A number of ecological, country-level studies have examined the presumed link between suicide rate and mental health system indicators, such as availability of mental health services [ 5 ], professional density [ 2 , 22 , 23 ], mental health spending [ 24 ], mental health legislations and policies [ 21 ] and antidepressant sales [ 23 ]. A study conducted in Finland found that the prominence of outpatient services was associated with lower suicide rate [ 17 ] whereas others have reported high suicide rates in countries with better mental health services such as higher numbers of psychiatric beds and availability of training in mental health for primary care professionals [ 5 , 18 ].…”

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Macro-level mental health system indicators and cross-national suicide rates

Andoh–Arthur

Adjorlolo

2021

Global Health Action

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Background The relationship between macro-level mental health system indicators and population suicide rates is an area of contention in the literature, necessitating an analysis of current cross-national data to document any new trend in the relationship. Objective This study investigated whether mental health system indicators are associated with national suicide rates. Method Using an ecological study design and multivariate non-parametric robust regression models, data on suicide rates and mental health system indicators of 191 countries retrieved from WHOs 2017 Mental Health Atlas were compared. Results Findings revealed that the average suicide mortality rate was significantly higher in high- income countries, relative to low-income countries. High-income countries are significantly more likely to have high number of mental health professionals, mental health policies and legislation, independent mental health authority and suicide prevention programs. These mental health system indicators demonstrated significant and positive association with suicide, suggesting that countries scoring high on these factors have higher odds of being categorized as high suicide risk countries. Conclusion The findings have several implications for policy and practice, including the need to make existing mental health systems very responsive to suicide prevention.

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Does State Spending on Mental Health Lower Suicide Rates?

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun: The Effect of Mandatory Handgun Purchase Delays on Homicide and Suicide

Looking Down the Barrel of a Loaded Gun: The Effect of Mandatory Handgun Purchase Delays on Homicide and Suicide

The Impacts of Social Protection Policies and Programs on Suicide: A Literature Review

Macro-level mental health system indicators and cross-national suicide rates

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