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| Geographic variations in suicide mortality, 1982-96 | | Author(s) | Julia Bunting, Sue Kelly |
| Journal title | Population Trends, no 93, Autumn 1998 |
| Pages | pp 7-37 |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Death rate [statistics] ; Regional ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | This article continues the analysis begun in Population Trends no 92. An overview is presented of suicide trends by age and sex between 1982 and 1996 of constituent countries of the UK, followed by a more detailed analysis of England and Wales by region and local authority. Regional analysis covers two time periods, 1982-1986 and 1992-1996, enabling comparison of suicide rates over time. Local authority analysis covers 1991-1996 and provides a more detailed picture, identifying smaller areas where mortality from suicide is high and those where it is low. All data are presented for local authority boundaries as at April 1997. Suicide rates have generally fallen across the UK in the last 15 years, except for men aged 15-44. Rates in Scotland were considerably higher than those in the rest of the UK. Regions with significantly high suicide rates in 1992-96 included the South-East for women aged 45 and over. Manchester was the only local authority which had significantly high suicide rates for both sexes and age groups. Local authorities with significantly high suicide rates tended to be those characterised as having high levels of "deprivation". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980929223 A |
| Classmark | EV: S5: : 5CP: 8 |
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