Firearm suicides and availability of firearms: the Swiss experience.
This study aimed to examine the association between the availability of firearms at home, and the proportion of firearm suicides in Switzerland in an ecological analysis. The data series were analysed by canton and yielded a fairly high correlation (Spearman's rho=0.60). Thus, the association holds also at a sub-national level.
Ajdacic-Gross
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Research Unit for Clinical and Social Psychiatry, Psychiatric University Hospital, Militärstrasse 8, Zürich, Switzerland.
Killias
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M
Hepp
U
U
Haymoz
S
S
Bopp
M
M
Gutzwiller
F
F
Rössler
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W
D005389:Firearms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013557:Switzerland; D000092864:Suicide Prevention