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Unemployment and underemployment are causes of suicide.
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- Socioeconomic disparities in the association between macroeconomic changes and suicide: a population-level time series study in Australia.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2026Article
- Responses to social defeat in early- vs late-onset suicidal behavior: An experimental behavioral study.Comprehensive psychiatry · 2026Article
- National trends, disparities and forecasts in substance use disorder-related suicide mortality in the United States: a CDC WONDER analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Mental health and macroeconomics: economic and social determinants that explain suicide in Ecuador.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Causal association between employment transitions and suicide in Australia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Generative AI may create a socioeconomic tipping point through labour displacement.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Community's Role in Rural Youth Suicide Prevention: Perspectives From the Field.The Australian journal of rural health · 2025Article
- Suicidal ideation among mental health patients at hospital discharge: prevalence and risk factors.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Artificial intelligence, recessionary pressures and population health.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2025Article
- Associations of perceived social support, resilience and posttraumatic growth among young and middle-aged patients with first-episode psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Recovery-based suicide prevention.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A Digital Approach for Addressing Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors in Youth Mental Health Services: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
- Suicide risk among adult subjects hospitalized in an acute psychiatric ward: 6-year retrospective investigation.BMC public health · 2024Observational
- Suicide and suicidality in Australian Defence Force veterans: A systematic scoping review.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Dynamic learning of individual-level suicidal ideation trajectories to enhance mental health care.Npj mental health research · 2024Article
- Navigating a stable transition to the age of intelligence: A mental wealth perspective.iScience · 2024Review
- The long-term changing patterns of suicide mortality in China from 1987 to 2020: continuing urban-rural disparity.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Mental health impacts of COVID-19: A retrospective analysis of dynamic modelling projections for Australia.Heliyon · 2024Article
- The rise in mortality due to intentional self-poisoning by medicines in Brazil between 2003 and 2022: relationship with regional and global crises.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Epidemiological studies indicate that labor underutilization and suicide are associated, yet it remains unclear whether this association is causal. We applied convergent cross mapping to test for causal effects of unemployment and underemployment on suicidal behavior, using monthly data on labor underutilization and suicide rates in Australia for the period 2004-2016. Our analyses provide evidence that rates of unemployment and underemployment were significant drivers of suicide mortality in Australia over the 13-year study period. Predictive modeling indicates that 9.5% of the ~32,000 suicides reported between 2004 and 2016 resulted directly from labor underutilization, including 1575 suicides attributable to unemployment and 1496 suicides attributable to underemployment. We conclude that economic policies prioritizing full employment should be considered integral to any comprehensive national suicide prevention strategy.
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