The gender difference in Chinese suicide rates

Archives of Suicide Research - Tập 3 - Trang 81-89 - 1997
ZHAO XIONG HE1, DAVID LESTER2
1Guangxi Academy of Social Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China
2Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, U.S.A.

Tóm tắt

Chinese women have a higher rate of suicide than Chinese men in the regions of mainland China currently reporting mortality data to the World Health Organization. This gender difference is documented, and possible reasons for the gender differences are explored using data from a survey of female suicides in Chuanzhou County in the Guangxi region of China. A definitive explanation for the gender difference must await detailed psychological autopsy studies.

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Archives of Suicide Research

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