Socio-economic Correlates Of Suicidality In Hong Kong
This study explores the correlates of the suicidality in Hong Kong with its socioeconomic predictors. Hong Kong witnessed its economic decline and its improvement in the last decade with 2003 as the turning point. After applying Poisson regression models on the data, it was found that individual p...
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Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM Press)
2014
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| Language: | English |
| Summary: | This study explores the correlates of the suicidality in Hong Kong with its socioeconomic predictors. Hong Kong witnessed its economic decline and its
improvement in the last decade with 2003 as the turning point. After applying
Poisson regression models on the data, it was found that individual payroll and
property price indices were closely associated with the monthly suicide counts in
Hong Kong, whereas unemployment rate and average rent index were not observed
statistically significant. The results reinforce the findings that structural socioeconomic conditions generally have a substantial impact on suicidality and that
unemployment rates may not always be correlated with suicide. This study
recommends taking into account of some alternative macroeconomic variables,
namely property price and individual payroll, to predict suicide rates |
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