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- Title
Evidence that latitude is directly related to variation in suicide rates.
- Authors
Davis, George E.; Lowell, Walter E.
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To use available suicide-rate data from 20 countries to see patterns and relations more clearly.<bold>Method: </bold>We obtained raw suicide rates from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) database from 1960 through 1997 and calculated averages and standard deviations.<bold>Results: </bold>There is a positive linear relation between the variation in suicide rate and geographic latitude.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>The variation in light-dark cycles is superimposed upon human mood.
- Subjects
SUICIDE; ORGANISATION for Economic Co-operation &; Development
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2002, Vol 47, Issue 6, p572
- ISSN
0706-7437
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1177/070674370204700611