A decline in Australian suicide during COVID-19? A reflection on the 2020 cause of death statistics in the context of long-term trends

This correspondence considers the overall decline in suicide in 2020 in the context of longer-term sex and age-specific trends over the period 1907–2020. When considering suicide rates from the beginning of the 20th century, the decrease in the total suicide rate from 2019 to 2020 is less noteworthy...

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Autores principales: Page, Andrew, Spittal, Matthew J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9034830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35498627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100353
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spelling pubmed-90348302022-04-25 A decline in Australian suicide during COVID-19? A reflection on the 2020 cause of death statistics in the context of long-term trends Page, Andrew Spittal, Matthew J. J Affect Disord Rep Correspondence This correspondence considers the overall decline in suicide in 2020 in the context of longer-term sex and age-specific trends over the period 1907–2020. When considering suicide rates from the beginning of the 20th century, the decrease in the total suicide rate from 2019 to 2020 is less noteworthy. The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-07 2022-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9034830/ /pubmed/35498627 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2022.100353 Text en © 2022 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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A decline in Australian suicide during COVID-19? A reflection on the 2020 cause of death statistics in the context of long-term trends
title A decline in Australian suicide during COVID-19? A reflection on the 2020 cause of death statistics in the context of long-term trends
title_full A decline in Australian suicide during COVID-19? A reflection on the 2020 cause of death statistics in the context of long-term trends
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title_short A decline in Australian suicide during COVID-19? A reflection on the 2020 cause of death statistics in the context of long-term trends
title_sort decline in australian suicide during covid-19? a reflection on the 2020 cause of death statistics in the context of long-term trends
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