Suicide and socioeconomic determinants in Canada: beyond morality and philosophy
| Autor: | Evan Lau, Sandra Chia Chia Tan, Biagio Simonetti, Siti Nur Zahara Hamzah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Statistics and Probability
Cointegration media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) General Social Sciences Rational choice theory Sample (statistics) Morality Causality Vector autoregression 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 0502 economics and business 030212 general & internal medicine 050207 economics Psychology Socioeconomic status Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Quality & Quantity. 51:1843-1858 |
| ISSN: | 1573-7845 0033-5177 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11135-016-0370-x |
| Popis: | This paper provides new and exciting insight of suicide between genders in Canada for 39 years from a socio-economic perspective. A theoretical framework based on sound economic theory of suicide using Vector Autoregression (VAR) model to establish meaningful relationships between variables incorporated. Additional causality test and beyond sample analysis (forecasting) will be helpful inbeautifying the linkages among the variables employed in this study. It is suggested that both female and male suicidal behaviour can be explained by socio-economic indicators. The findings provide useful insights for policy makers and suicide related agencies to perform a novel approach in dealing with suicides in addition to traditional behavioural correction and counselling strategies in hand. This study should also be helpful in understanding suicide from a broad perspective and analysing suicide in a new economic framework of rational choice theory. |
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