Unemployment, Medicaid provisions, the mental health industry, and suicide

Pellegrini, Lawrence C.; Rodríguez-Monguió, Rosa

doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2013.09.013

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“…While a large amount of studies has examined the significance of such economic factors, such as unemployment (see, e.g. Morrell et al, 1993;Platt et al, 1992;Inoue et al, 2007;Noh, 2009;Chang et al, 2010;Kuroki, 2010;Lundin et al, 2012;Garcy and Vger, 2012;Pellegrini and Rodriguez-Monguio, 2013;Nordt et al, 2015;Webb and Kapur, 2015;Fountoulakis et al, 2015;Dos Santos, 2015;Bonamore et al, 2015;Hsu et al, 2015;Fountoulakis et al, 2015;Goldman-Mellor, 2016), income and business cycles (see, e.g. Wasserman, 1984;Ruhm, 2000;Miller et al, 2009;Gonzalez and Quast, 2010;Stuckler et al, 2011;Suhrcke and Stuckler, 2012) and fiscal austerity Collins, 2014, 2015;Branas et al, 2015), among others 1 , no study, according to our knowledge, has explored the impact of policy-related economic uncertainty per se on suicide mortality.…”

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Is Economic Policy Uncertainty Related to Suicide Rates? Evidence from the United States

Antonakakis

Gupta

2016

Soc Indic Res

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While it has long been recognised that periods of economic uncertainty, characterised by increased unemployment and lower economic activity, are associated with increased suicide rates, no study has examined the direct impact of policy-related economic uncertainty on suicide mortality. The aim of this study is to provide the first systematic evidence of a relationship between economic policy uncertainty and suicide mortality in the United states over the period 1950-2013, while controlling for several other socioeconomic determinants of suicide mortality. The results of the analysis reveal that increased economic policy uncertainty is associated with increased suicide mortality of the youngest and the oldest segments of the male population in the United States, while the female population is found to be resilient to policy-related economic uncertainty.

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Is Economic Policy Uncertainty Related to Suicide Rates? Evidence from the United States

Antonakakis

Gupta

2016

Soc Indic Res

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“…We used the following state-level data to adjust for characteristics associated with firearm-related suicide in prior research studies: poverty rate [26,27], Medicaid generosity (percentage of the U.S. Federal Poverty Line that qualifies a parent for Medicaid benefits based on income per state) [28,29], average state population density weighted by county (sum of the average density for all counties in a given state, for each year: [county population / county land area] * [county population / state population]) [30,31], sex rate (percentage of the state population that is female) [32], and rate of older adults (percentage of the state population that is ages 55 to 64 and 65 and older) [32]. Some of these variables were particularly important among a population of older adults.…”

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The impact of gun violence restraining order laws in the U.S. and firearm suicide among older adults: a longitudinal state-level analysis, 2012–2016

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Background: Older adults complete suicide at a disproportionately higher rate compared to the general population, with firearms the most common means of suicide. State gun laws may be a policy remedy. Less is known about Gun Violence Restricting Order (GVRO) laws, which allow for removal of firearms from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others, and their effects on suicide rates among older adults. The purpose of this study was to examine the association of state firearm laws with the incidence of firearm, non-firearm-related, and total suicide among older adults, with a focus on GVRO laws. Methods: This is a longitudinal study of US states using data from 2012 to 2016. The outcome variables were firearm, non-firearm and total suicide rates among older adults. Predictor variables were [1] total number of gun laws to assess for impact of overall firearm legislation at the state level, and [2] GVRO laws. Results: The total number of firearm laws, as well as GVRO laws, were negatively associated with firearm-related suicide rate among older adults ages 55-64 and > 65 years-old (p < 0.001). There was a small but significant positive association of total number of firearm laws to non-firearm-related suicide rates and a negative association with total suicide rate. GVRO laws were not significantly associated with non-firearm-related suicide and were negatively associated with total suicide rate. Conclusion: Stricter firearm legislation, as well as GVRO laws, are protective against firearm-relate suicides among older adults.

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“…Although they have implemented efforts to train primary caregivers, establish hotlines, or have staff trained to the know how to answer in case to detect signs or symptoms of possible suicide attempt (Hoven, Wasserman, Wasserman, & Mandell, 2009), the problem goes beyond taking immediate strategies, for example, taking in account the policies established by governments on the issue of mental health, in order to observe the effect of investing in prevention programs to decrease suicide rates and their relation with other mental disorders (Ross, Yakovlev, & Carson, 2012); in this sense, and from an economic perspective of public health, it can be seen how the increase of unemployment is associated with more medical aid benefices and high expenditures on health care (Pellegrini & Rodriguez-Mongui, 2013), or how fiscal austerity may lead to situations related ideas or suicide attempts (Antonakakis & Collins, 2014) or demonstrate that the social support avoiding people isolation, are important to prevent suicidal acts (Rajkumar, Brinda, Duba, Thangadurai, & Jacob, 2013).…”

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Validation of the Spanish Version of the Inventory of Suicide Orientation - ISO 30 in Adolescent Students of Educational Institutions in Medellin - Colombia

Suárez

Posada

Ramírez

2016

WJE

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Inventory of Suicide Orientation -ISO 30, it is a self-report scale that measures risk of adolescents suicide orientation. Although the risk of adolescents suicide is on the public agenda in Colombia actually, there is no study to analyze the psychometric properties of ISO 30, and for this reason, the present study is conducted with a random sample of 604 adolescent students (48% were male and 52% female with an average age of 14 and a deviation of 1.9 years). Methods: A confirmatory factor analysis was performed; reliability is checked by the Cronbach's alpha and correlation item-subconstruct to which it belongs; The test-retest reliability and concurrent validity with the RFL-A validated scale in Colombia with teenage school people is verified. AMOS 16.0 and SPSS version 20.0 for data processing was used. Results: this population was confirmed in the same factorial structure of the original scale; so does the internal consistency for the 30 items and the correlation of each item with its own subconstruct: social isolation and marginalization, low self-esteem, inability to manage emotions, suicidal ideation and hopelessness. Conclusion: The Inventory of Suicide Orientation -ISO 30 Spanish version, is a useful questionnaire and appropriate to diagnose the risk of suicidal orientation (which is a prelude to suicidal idea) in the adolescents students people in Medellin city.

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Unemployment, Medicaid provisions, the mental health industry, and suicide

Cited by 16 publications

References 40 publications

Is Economic Policy Uncertainty Related to Suicide Rates? Evidence from the United States

Is Economic Policy Uncertainty Related to Suicide Rates? Evidence from the United States

The impact of gun violence restraining order laws in the U.S. and firearm suicide among older adults: a longitudinal state-level analysis, 2012–2016

Validation of the Spanish Version of the Inventory of Suicide Orientation - ISO 30 in Adolescent Students of Educational Institutions in Medellin - Colombia

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