Suicide and unemployment in Australia 1907–1990

Influence of lack of full-time employment on attempted suicide in Manitoba, Canada

“…They also illustrate that some of this association is due to confounding as the odds ratio fell from 7.5 (95% CI 3.74-15.13) to 3.68 (95% CI 1.76-7.71) after adjustment for potential confounding factors. Our findings are consistent with other work showing that unemployment is associated with both adverse mental health outcomes (10, 12-16, 29, 30) and suicide (2,3,9). Our findings are unlikely to be due to recent mental health care or suicide attempts, ethnicity, education, or income, as we were able to control for these variables.…”

“…Mortality data underestimate the true effects of attempted suicide as they do not consider the large number of unsuccessful attempts and their associated human and financial costs. Unemployment has been repeatedly associated with suicide; however, whether the association is causal remains unclear (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9). The two competing mechanisms, causation and selection, may explain this association.…”

Avrupada ekonomik kriz ve özkıyım istatistikleri

“…Among all the consequence of these possible adverse impacts on mental health, the most striking would be an effect on suicidality. Previous experience as well as the literature, have led to the wide belief that crises of this kind increase suicides (9,15,(20)(21)(22)(23)(24). The experience from the Asian economic crisis of the 90s, has put a particular emphasis on the effect of rising unemployment (25,26).…”

What precipitates deliberate self-harm?

“…The rate of suicide and deliberate self-harm has been rising in Australia, particularly among the young (Morrell et al 1993). There is a need to understand contributory factors and to develop strategies both to prevent its occurrence and to manage people who present with such problems.…”

“…The social view formulates self-harm as an understandable response to social factors (Morrell et al 1993;Berrios 1996), so that an otherwise healthy person might self-harm, drawing attention to the person's motivation and reasons for self-harm.…”