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  • Suicide in a Global World: An Empirical Examination of the Relationship Between Globalisation, Social-Ecological Factors, and Suicide Mortality in 35 Countries.

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    Author(s)
    Milner, Allison J.
    Primary Supervisor
    De Leo, Diego
    Other Supervisors
    Sun, Jing
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    Globalisation is recognised as an important population-level influence on health, responsible for altering the structural and psycho-social conditions in which human wellbeing is embedded. It has also been acknowledged that the economic, social and technological processes involved in globalisation may have implications for suicide mortality. This premise was investigated using a cross-sectional time-series database on 35 countries, measured over the period 1980–2006. The first step in establishing the relationship between globalisation and suicide was to develop a globalisation “index”, comprising economic, social and ...
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    Globalisation is recognised as an important population-level influence on health, responsible for altering the structural and psycho-social conditions in which human wellbeing is embedded. It has also been acknowledged that the economic, social and technological processes involved in globalisation may have implications for suicide mortality. This premise was investigated using a cross-sectional time-series database on 35 countries, measured over the period 1980–2006. The first step in establishing the relationship between globalisation and suicide was to develop a globalisation “index”, comprising economic, social and technological variables. Countries in the sample were assigned an annual globalisation “rank”, which allowed the process to be measured in each country over a 26-year period. Panel data regression techniques were used to investigate the effect of the globalisation index on age-standardised male and female suicide rates using a Least-Squared Dummy Variable (LSDV) fixedeffects model, a Generalised Least Squares (GLS) random-effects model and a population-averaged estimation models. The influence of globalisation on male and female age-standardised suicide rates was measured in two ways. First, the total globalisation index was entered into an analysis which also controlled for “traditional” ecological predictors of suicide. Second, the index was divided into four separate “levels” (low, medium, high and very high) to establish whether different stages of the globalisation process produced different outcomes on male and female suicide rates. As in the first analysis, this also included “traditional” ecological predictors. Further analysis was conducted to assess the association of eight geo-cultural regions (East- Central Europe, Western Europe, the Baltic States, Asia, South America, countries of Anglo-Saxon origin, Scandinavia, and Southern Europe) with male and female suicide rates.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    School
    School of Health Sciences
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/3533
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
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    Public
    Subject
    Suicide
    Socio-economic factors
    Social-ecological factors
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365621
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