The gender difference in Chinese suicide rates

Authors: HE Z.X.1; LESTER D.2

Source: Archives of Suicide Research, Volume 3, Number 2, 1997 , pp. 81-89(9)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

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.

Keywords: China; gender differences; suicide rates

Language: English

Document Type: Regular paper

Affiliations: 1: Guangxi Academy of Social Sciences, 30 Xin Zhu Road, Nanning, Guangxi, China 530022 2: Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ, U.S.A.

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