Influencing Suicide Rates among the Elderly: The Suicide Prevention and Regulation Policies of Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea

• Main Author: Rosario, Angela Louise C
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: suicide; elderly; prevention policy; regulation policy; comparative analysis; Japan; the Netherlands; South Korea; International and Area Studies; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/japanese-studies-program-faculty/1; https://brill.com/view/journals/coso/18/5-6/article-p757_8.xml
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

By focusing on the elderly suicide rates, this study lays out the different suicide regulation and prevention policies of three developed countries – Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea. The main goal is to compare and analyze how these policies, with disparate ways of handling suicide, influence elderly suicide rates in relation with their countries’ respective differing suicide determinants. By applying the ‘Method for Synthesizing about Public Policies’ created by Morestin, Gauvin, Hogue, and Benoit to check the status of efficiency and of any issues of public policies, it concludes that South Korea shows promise, while Japan’s suicide rates have certainly been scaling down. Conversely, in terms of the use of euthanasia, suicide rates in the Netherlands have been continuously rising.