title: Enterprise failures correlate positively with suicide rate for both sexes in Japan.
abstract: Correlations among suicide rate, unemployment rate, and enterprise failure were examined from 1976 to 1994 by using a Loess smoothing method. Significant positive correlations were found between suicide rate in men and unemployment and between suicide rate in both sexes and enterprise failure (p < .001).
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Promotion and Human Behavior, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshidakonoe, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501 Kyoto, Japan. aki@pbh.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
authors.forename: Masanobu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chinami
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Morgenthaler
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaneko
authors.forename: Kazuko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakashima
authors.forename: Taro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirakawa
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000328:Adult; D003132:Commerce; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014478:Unemployment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*