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Assessing the Epidemiology of Suicide and Parasuicide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

R. D. T. Farmer
R. D. T. Farmer*
Affiliation:
Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, 17 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AR
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Abstract

Suicide is a rare phenomenon – in most countries, it explains between 0.5 and 1% of all deaths – no more than 15 per 100 000 population. Although rates increase with age, its impact on the total mortality of the young is greater than its impact on the elderly. Despite its rarity, the subject has attracted, and continues to attract, wide interest among academics and popular writers.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 1 , July 1988 , pp. 16 - 20
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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