Social integration and suicide in the Western Pacific Islands.
In the Western Pacific Islands, the rate of suicide was more common in those islands with faster growing populations, but not among the islands with larger total populations or with greater population densities. This offers partial support for some of the propositions of Durkheim and Lester.
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Department of Health, Leisure, and Exercise Science, The University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL 32514-5750, USA. fbridges@uwf.edu