PART III. International Perspectives
11 Suicide in an International Perspective
David Lester,
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David Lester
David Lester is with the Center for the Study of Suicide.
RR 41, 5 Stonegate Court, Blackwood, NJ 08012.Search for more papers by this authorDavid Lester,
Corresponding Author
David Lester
David Lester is with the Center for the Study of Suicide.
RR 41, 5 Stonegate Court, Blackwood, NJ 08012.Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
Epidemiological trends in national suicide rates were identified, including a slowdown in the 1980s in the suicide rates of nations with the highest rates and a rising male suicide rate worldwide. A review of theories of national differences in suicide rates permitted selection of a small set of predictor variables, which were quite successful in predicting the suicide rates of 17 industrialized nations.
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