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Changes in South Korean urbanicity and suicide rates, 1992 to 2012.
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- Spatial, geographic, and demographic factors associated with adolescent and youth suicide: a systematic review study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Socioeconomic factors associated with suicidal behaviors in South Korea: systematic review on the current state of evidence.BMC public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Changes in the Suicide Rate of Older Adults According to Gender, Age, and Region in South Korea from 2010 to 2017.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Prevalence and risk factors for suicide in patients with sepsis: nationwide cohort study in South Korea.BJPsych open · 2022Article
- A novel CMAQ-CNN hybrid model to forecast hourly surface-ozone concentrations 14 days in advance.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Quantifying the contributions of age, sex, methods, and urbanicity to the changing suicide rate trends in South Korea, 2001-2016.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2020Article
- Effect of socioeconomic deprivation on outcomes of diabetes complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a nationwide population-based cohort study of South Korea.BMJ open diabetes research & care · 2020Article
- Seasonal changes in suicide in South Korea, 1991 to 2015.PloS one · 2019Article
- Urban-rural inequalities in suicide mortality: a comparison of urbanicity indicators.International journal of health geographics · 2017Article
- Regional variation in suicide rates in Sri Lanka between 1955 and 2011: a spatial and temporal analysis.BMC public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivesStudies have highlighted the association between the degree of urbanicity and spatial disparities in suicide, but few have evaluated its changes across time. We explored the geospatial trends of suicide in South Korea from 1992 to 2012, and their relationship to the nation's evolving urbanicity.
settingSouth Korea. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Age-sex-specific suicide rate.
resultsSuicide rates increased in all regions of South Korea during the study period. Controlling the effects of age and sex, there was an overall inverse relationship between the degree of urbanicity and regional suicide rates. These associations were, however, attenuated across the periods, as there were smaller increases in suicide rates in mid-sized urban regions as compared to larger cities and to rural areas. Increases over time in the suicide rates among youth and working-age adults were greater in large urban centres and in rural regions. For elders, the increase was far greater in rural regions.
conclusionsThe association of urbanicity and the geospatial pattern of suicide in South Korea was a dynamic process and varied by age groups across the course of two decades. Internal migration and related social processes most likely contributed to these changes.
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