Does recession = poorer health? Evidence strongest for suicide and mental illness
Claire Niedzwiedz examines a recent systematic review which looks at the possible harm caused by the 2008 financial crisis and recession on the health of people living across Europe.
[read the full story...]Social media and suicide prevention
Claire Niedzwiedz summarises a recent systematic review that provides a narrative synthesis of research into social media and suicide prevention.
[read the full story...]Excessively high suicide rates among psychiatric inpatients
Claire Niedzwiedz summarises a recent meta-analysis of suicide rates among psychiatric inpatients, which finds excessively high rates of suicide when compared with the general population.
[read the full story...]Around one in five suicides across the world linked to unemployment
Claire Niedzwiedz summarises the Lancet Psychiatry longitudinal modelling study of suicide and unemployment, which uses the WHO mortality database to investigate suicides in 63 countries worldwide from 2000-2011.
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