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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"suicides"”.
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Troubling Suicide: Law, Medicine and Hijra Suicides in India
… of both medical and legal rights systems: hijra suicides. “Hijra” is a gender/sexual identity specific to the South Asian region that does not necessarily fit well under the label of ‘transgender’ (a label that has come into prominence in Indian rights law in recent years). Based on my fieldwork …
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Distinguishing homicides and suicides in firearm fatalities: the role of skeletal trauma analysis
… looking at variation between homicides and suicides in firearm fatalities has used soft tissue trauma analysis and autopsy reports to identify common characteristics specific to these manners of death. They have found that anatomic location of entrance trauma, bullet direction, number of …
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Mediatizált öngyilkosságok - a "Werther effektus" szociológiai vizsgálata = Mediatized suicides – the sociological study on Werther-effect –
A kor követelménye, hogy Magyarországon a szakma és a média befolyásos képviselői leüljenek egy asztalhoz és kidolgozzanak egy olyan sajtóajánlást, amely az öngyilkosságokról szóló híradások imitációs szempontból „ártalmatlan” megfogalmazásához, a bemutatás tartalmi és formai elemeinek betartásához …
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Workplace Suicides Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2013-2020
This study examines the occurrence of workplace suicides and their contextual factors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the Centers for Disease Control's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS). The study analyzes demographic, geographical, occupation, and …
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A descriptive analysis of suicides and their interface with healthcare facilities in the Western Cape, South Africa: 2011-2015
… healthcare facilities. This study profiles all suicides that occurred in the Western Cape during the year 2011-2015 and their interface with the healthcare facilities up to one year prior to death. OBJECTIVES: This study assesses the incidence of suicides in the Western Cape. It tests for …
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Creation and defence of a suicidal death: A qualitative study of the aftermath of university students' suicides from the perspective of their friends
Creation and defence of a suicidal death is a study of the aftermath of self inflicted death in young adults, from the perspective of their friends. Suicide is a leading cause of death among young adults. Those who die in youth are likely to be engaged in an extended social network and thus the …
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The epidemiology, pathology and toxicology of suicide
Complete suicides and parasuicides are a major cause of death and disability in South Africa and the rest of the world. The epidemiology, pathology and toxicology of complete suicides were investigated in this study. All the complete suicide cases, which were presented to Salt River Medicolegal …
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Suicide Seasonality In South Carolina
… studies have analyzed the seasonal variation in suicides. Despite extensive research, inferences on suicide seasonality are weak. The suicide seasonality in South Carolina has been described in our study. Suicides in our sample were found to exhibit seasonal variation. Although the seasonality …
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Suicide and community traumatic events: is there a connection?
… December 31, 2004. The researcher used data on suicides (homicides and accidental deaths were used for comparison) in the selected parish to describe the distribution of suicides over the 11 year period. A procedure was developed for identifying and categorizing CTEs sustained by the selected …
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Das "Nürnberger Bündnis gegen Depression"
… most dramatic consequences is a big number of suicides. Methods: Within the competence network on depression and suicidality (founded by the German Ministry for Education and Research) a multi-level program was carried out in 2001 and 2002: the “Nuremberg Alliance against Depression”. In the …
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Gay men and suicidality : an exploration of the significant biographical experiences fore-grounded during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood of some gay men who have engaged in suicidality
… heterosexual counterparts. Data on completed suicides, usually derived from mortality statistics, misrepresent the rate of suicides amongst homosexual populations. However, an increasing number of studies comparing representative samples of gay, lesbian and bisexual youths with heterosexual …
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Examining perceptions of the growing number of children dying by suicide in the United States : an explanatory sequential mixed-method study.
… States of America. Despite the growing number of suicides in the United States, there is a lack of proactive solutions to help children and youth. The increasing number of children and youth suicides has negatively impacted the culture and climate of many elementary, middle, and high schools in …
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Post September 11th Suicide Rates: Durkheim and Communal Bereavement
… in anomie and consequently a decrease in suicides. The opposing view point is that of communal bereavement, which proposes an increase in suicides after a public tragedy due to the tendency of individuals to be emotionally impacted by events which do not involve them directly. To test …
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Valutazione del rischio genetico di comportamento suicidario nel disturbo bipolare: analisi di 737 pedigrees
… lifetime prevalence of completed and attempted suicides was analyzed in 737 families of probands with MAD with 4,919 first-degree relatives (affected and unaffected). Cox proportional hazard regression models and logistic regression models were used to investigate the role of several clinical …
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Essays on the provision and regulation of healthcare services
… Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) on suicides. PDMPs aim to discourage prescription drug abuse and diversion by requiring pharmacies to report the names of both patients and prescribers to a central database when dispensing controlled-substance drugs such as OxyContin. The recent …
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Providing support in a time of crisis: An investigation into how Educational Psychologists in the UK respond to a death by suicide within the school community.
… community critical incidents, including death by suicides. The number of suicides in young people under 25 years old is steadily increasing across the United Kingdom and many of those bereaved by a suicide will be in education. It is therefore an important issue to research to gain an …
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Multifaceted Traumatization: Direct and Vicarious Exposure of EMS Personnel Who Responded To a Suicide Where Loved Ones of the Deceased Were Present
… arrive to mental disturbance calls or completed suicides. In order to add to the substantial body of literature on EMS personnel and traumatic exposure, this study explored their experiences of multifaceted traumatization; the lived experiences of paramedics and EMTs who have responded to …
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Suicide in South Australia: specific features, trends and reasons for disparities in numbers
… there was a general decline in the rates of male suicides although, no statistically significant changes were observed in the registered rates for females. Available data from national registers were also reviewed from the National Coronial Information System and from the Australian Bureau of …
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Framing youth suicide in a multi-mediated world: the construction of the Bridgend problem in the British national press
… Contagion’ considers the risk of imitative suicides posed by new or traditional media. ‘Breakdown Britain’ attributes the Bridgend phenomenon to local deprivation and a deeper social malaise. Finally, ‘Mental Health’ underlines the emotional vulnerability of young people, the stigmatisation …
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