Economic Analysis of Suicide Prevention Towards Evidence-Based Policy-Making /

This book examines the causes and consequences of suicide from the perspective of economics. The approach here differs from those in medical, psychiatric, epidemiological, and sociological studies of suicide and is thus novel in a way that highlights the importance of economic and institutional sett...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sawada, Yasuyuki (Author), Ueda, Michiko (Author), Matsubayashi, Tetsuya (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Economy and Social Inclusion, Creating a Society for All,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I Why policy interventions by the government are necessary
  • 2 Rationale Behind Suicide Prevention Policies
  • 3 Socioeconomic Causes of Suicide
  • 4 Natural Disasters and Suicide
  • 5 Suicide Among Adolescents and Young Individuals
  • 6 Railway Suicide in Japan
  • Part II Prevention policies for reducing suicides
  • 7 Government partisanship and suicide
  • 8 Economic and Welfare Policies and Suicide
  • 9 The Consequences of Government Suicide Prevention Programs.