ArticleEuropean journal of epidemiology2017
Does air pollution trigger suicide? A case-crossover analysis of suicide deaths over the life span.
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- The short-term effect of ambient particulate matter on suicide death.Environmental health : a global access science source · 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
- Association between particulate matter air pollution and risk of depression and suicide: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Pooled it
- Air Pollution (Particulate Matter) Exposure and Associations with Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar, Psychosis and Suicide Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Environmental health perspectives · 2019Pooled it
- Revisiting 'environmental effects': Directions for multidisciplinary investigations of air quality and psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Understanding the Social Determinants of Suicidality Among Young People Aged 12-26 Years: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review.Community mental health journal · 2026Article
- Short-term PMBMC public health · 2026Article
- Fine particulate matter (PMFrontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Lost Futures: The Human and Economic Cost of Suicide in Türkiye, 2012-2023.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Analysis of the global trends and causes of self-harm due to high temperature: a global level ecological study.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Differential effects of fine particulate matter constituents on acute coronary syndrome onset.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Youth Suicidality in the Context of Disasters.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
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- The association between nation-level social and economic indices and suicide rates: A pilot study.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Article
- The mental health and well-being effects of wildfire smoke: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Daylight saving time affects European mortality patterns.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Escaping from Air Pollution: Exploring the Psychological Mechanism behind the Emergence of Internal Migration Intention among Urban Residents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Children mirror adults for the worse: evidence of suicide rates due to air pollution and unemployment.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Association of short-term particulate matter exposure with suicide death among major depressive disorder patients: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Brain Drain out of the Blue: Pollution-Induced Migration in Vietnam.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
In addition to underlying health disorders and socio-economic or community factors, air pollution may trigger suicide mortality. This study evaluates the association between short-term variation in air pollution and 10 years of suicide mortality in Belgium. In a bidirectional time-stratified case-crossover design, 20,533 suicide deaths registered between January 1st 2002 and December 31st 2011 were matched by temperature with control days from the same month and year. We used municipality-level air pollution [particulate matter (PM
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