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| Recent trends in elderly suicide rates in a multi-ethnic Asia city | | Author(s) | Ee-Hoek Kua, Soe-Meng Ko, Tze-Pin Ng |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 6, June 2003 |
| Pages | pp 533-536 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Suicide ; Death rate [statistics] ; Singapore. |
| Annotation | Data from Singapore's National Department of Statistics were used in the analysis of sex- and age-standardised suicide and relative risks for Chinese, Malays and Indians in Singapore from 1991 to 2000. Overall, the suicide rate for older people showed a decline from 40.1 per 100,000 in 1990 to 17.8 per 100,000 in 2000, with the most pronounced decline occurring from 1995 to 2000. The suicide rate for older Chinese was at a peak of 52 per 100,000 in 1995, and declined to 20 per 100,000 in 2000. The rates for older Malays were consistently low at 2.2 per 100,000 in the 10 years. For older Indians, the rates were between the other two ethnic groups. Thus, there was a marked decline in suicides of older people in Singapore. Consistent with other studies, the suicide rate was lower for older women than for older men. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030702204 A |
| Classmark | TK: EV: S5: 7XD |
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