ArticleEnvironmental health and preventive medicine2014
Local daily temperatures, thermal seasons, and suicide rates in Finland from 1974 to 2010.
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- Climate change and suicide epidemiology: a systematic review and meta-analysis of gender variations in global suicide rates.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Suicide and Associations with Air Pollution and Ambient Temperature: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- [Weather and suicide : Association between meteorological variables and suicidal behavior-a systematic qualitative review article].Der Nervenarzt · 2020Pooled it
- A systematic review of the association between climate change and suicidality reveals that climate indicators increase suicide rates.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- The association between temperature variability, morbidity and mortality for specific categories of disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Hygiene and environmental health advances · 2025Article
- Suicide deaths associated with climate change-induced heat anomalies in Australia: a time series regression analysis.BMJ mental health · 2024Article
- Seasonal changes and decrease of suicides and suicide attempts in France over the last 10 years.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Seasonal Variation in Generic and Disease-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life in Rhinologic Patients in Southern Finland.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Hot Weather and Suicide Deaths among Older Adults in Hong Kong, 1976-2014: A Retrospective Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Association Between Suicide and Environmental Variables in the North of Spain: A 14-Year Analysis.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2018Article
- Where are weather-suicide associations valid? An examination of nine US counties with varying seasonality.International journal of biometeorology · 2018Article
- Disparities in suicide mortality trends between United States of America and 25 European countries: retrospective analysis of WHO mortality database.Scientific reports · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesSuicide peaks in late spring and October are still seen in Finland among many countries. Weather factors have been suggested as explanations for these peaks, although with inconsistent results. Since the exact timing of these peaks varies each year, the length of daylight and changes in it seem inadequate as an explanation. We hypothesized that ambient temperature and the timing of thermal seasons might associate with suicide rate.
methodsSuicide rates from three areas across Finland (N = 10,802) were analyzed with Poisson regression in six different models against variables calculated from the local ambient daily temperature, diurnal temperature range, and the duration from the onset of thermal seasons. Separate models for men and women were constructed.
resultsThe temperature change over 5 days associated with the suicide rate of men in Helsinki region, or in other words, the lower the suicide rate was, the higher the temperature decrease had been. For women, the results were more inconsistent.
conclusionsOur study is in line with some earlier studies which imply that impairment of thermoregulation might exist among suicide victims.
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