Suicide in Cork and Ireland
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 157 (4), 533-538
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.157.4.533
Abstract
The official suicide rate in Ireland increased markedly between 1970 and 1985. This is a genuine increase in suicide and not an apparent one due to previous deficiencies in recording practices. Possible reasons for this change include an increase in‘anomie’shown by a rise in the rates of crime, illegitimacy and admissions to hospital for alcoholism, a decline in social cohesion revealed by a fall in the marriage rate and a rise in the number of separated couples, and an increase in unemployment.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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