ArticleInternational journal for equity in health2015
Inequalities in suicide mortality rates and the economic recession in the municipalities of Catalonia, Spain.
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- Evaluation of the Biases in the Studies that Assess the Effects of the Great Recession on Health. A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
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- The Impact of Economic Recessions on Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma-Related Disorders and Illness Outcomes-A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Socioeconomic inequalities in suicide mortality before and after the economic recession in Spain.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Methodological barriers to studying the association between the economic crisis and suicide in Spain.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Looking beyond the veil of the European crisis--the need to uncover the structural causes of health inequalities.International journal for equity in health · 2016Article
- Effects of the Financial Crisis on Psychotropic Drug Consumption in a Cohort from a Semi-Urban Region in Catalonia, Spain.PloS one · 2016Article
- Relationship between suicide rate and economic growth and stock market in the People's Republic of China: 2004-2013.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2016Article
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Abstract
introductionWhile previous research already exists on the impact of the current economic crisis and whether it leads to an increase in mortality by suicide, our objective in this paper is to determine if the increase in the suicide rate in Catalonia, Spain from 2010 onwards has been statistically significant and whether it is associated with rising unemployment.
methodsWe used hierarchical mixed models, separately considering the crude death rate of suicides for municipalities with more than and less than 10,000 inhabitants as dependent variables both unstratified and stratified according to gender and/or age group.
resultsIn municipalities with 10,000 or more inhabitants there was an increase in the relative risk of suicide from 2009 onwards. This increase was only statistically significant for working-aged women (16-64 years). In municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants the relative risk showed a decreasing trend even after 2009. In no case did we find the unemployment rate to be associated (statistically significant) with the suicide rate.
conclusionsThe increase in the suicide rate from 2010 in Catalonia was not statistically significant as a whole, with the exception of working-aged women (16-64 years) living in municipalities with 10,000 or more inhabitants. We have not found this increase to be associated with rising unemployment in any of the cases. Future research into the effects of economic recessions on suicide mortality should take into account inequalities by age, sex and size of municipalities.
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