title: Suicide in an international perspective.
abstract: Epidemiological trends in national suicide rates were identified, including a slowdown in the 1980s in the suicide rates of nations with the highest rates and a rising male suicide rate worldwide. A review of theories of national differences in suicide rates permitted selection of a small set of predictor variables, which were quite successful in predicting the suicide rates of 17 industrialized nations.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D013405:Suicide / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*