Suicide is a global public health problem. Asia accounts for 60% of the world's suicides, so
at least 60 million people are affected by suicide or attempted suicide in Asia each year. The …

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young adults worldwide. There is a
growing recognition that prevention strategies need to be tailored to the region-specific …

Background WHO estimates that about 170 000 deaths by suicide occur in India every year,
but few epidemiological studies of suicide have been done in the country. We aimed to …

Sicide is animportantissue in the Indiancontext. More than one lakh (one hundred thousand)
lives are lost every year to suicide in our country. In the last two decades, the suicide rate …

The majority of studies on risk factors for suicide have been conducted in developed
countries, and less work has been done to systematically profile risk factors in developing …

Background Globally, suicide is an important cause of mortality. In low-and middle income
settings, it is difficult to find unequivocal data to establish suicide rates. The objective of this …

This paper studies the impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in
India. Using state level variation in legal changes to women's property rights, we show that …

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Objective. Suicide is a global public health problem, but relatively little epidemiological
investigation of the phenomenon has occurred in developing countries. This paper aims to …

Background Previous studies have shown that pesticide bans were associated with reduced
fatal pesticide self-poisoning cases in high, and low-and-middle-income countries. We …