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dc.contributor.authorF. G. Williams, Ruth
dc.contributor.authorDoessel, D.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T17:00:35Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T17:00:35Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2009-12-11T06:46:04Z
dc.identifier.issn08109028
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08109020701531403
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/27378
dc.description.abstractMany Western countries have experienced the 'rectangularisation of the [demographic] survival curve', leading to a rise in life expectancy. This process is the result of falling death rates, which leads to increasing longevity. In this article, suicide is placed within the general perspective of declining All Causes mortality. It is shown that suicide is atypical when compared with other causes of death. Which ever way it is measured, whether by an unweighted headcount measure or a weighted Potential Years of Life Lost measure, the suicide rate is not subject to secular decline. In fact, it has become (numerically) a relatively more important cause of death. This article puts some emphasis on the arguments by Joel Mokyr, an economic historian, about the importance of knowledge accumulation. It is argued that, in the case of suicide, there is a deficiency in knowledge of the causes of suicide and the prevention of suicide.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeOxford, UK
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/subjecthome~db=all
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom283
dc.relation.ispartofpageto303
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPrometheus
dc.relation.ispartofvolume25
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and Administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1605
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1801
dc.titleThe Role of Knowledge Accumulation in Health and Longevity: The Puzzling Case of Suicide
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDoessel, Darrel P.


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