ArticleInternational journal of biometeorology2006
Inter-annual rainfall variations and suicide in New South Wales, Australia, 1964-2001.
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- Associations between climate variability, unemployment and suicide in Australia: a multicity study.BMC psychiatry · 2015Article
- Acute air pollution exposure and risk of suicide completion.American journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
- Association of weekly suicide rates with temperature anomalies in two different climate types.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
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- Suicide and drought in New South Wales, Australia, 1970-2007.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012Article
- Spatial clusters of suicide in Australia.BMC psychiatry · 2012Article
- Relation between temperature and suicide mortality in Japan in the presence of other confounding factors using time-series analysis with a semiparametric approach.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2011Article
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Abstract
The suicide rate in New South Wales is shown to be related to annual precipitation, supporting a widespread and long-held assumption that drought in Australia increases the likelihood of suicide. The relationship, although statistically significant, is not especially strong and is confounded by strong, long-term variations in the suicide rate not related to precipitation variations. A decrease in precipitation of about 300 mm would lead to an increase in the suicide rate of approximately 8% of the long-term mean suicide rate.
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