Study reveals in Australia, suicide rates have consistently been found to be higher in rural than in metropolitan areas. Adolescent and young adult males especially those in rural or remote areas, have particularly high suicide rates."

Browse to become familiar with this resource that details suicide in rural and remote communities in Australia.

Become familiar with this guide that includes an overview, FAQ, tools and other resources.

Offers an indicator that compares the rates of suicides for farmers and farm workers with that for the rest of the working population in England and Wales.

Read this executive summary and recommendations, in PDF format, prepared as a part of Australia's suicide prevention initiative.

Abstract of this study concludes "compositional, contextual and collective factors are hypothesized to influence the elevated rate of suicide in rural compared with urban areas."

Resource, offered by the National Rural Health Association, reveals the suicide rate among rural men is significantly higher than in urban areas, particularly among adult men and children.

Offers links to information about the health issues facing Australians living in rural and remote areas, including the availability of health services, and coping with crisis.

Article by Peter G. Beeson offers this article and provides resources and references.

Offers a DVD / video that provides information on youth suicide in rural Australia. See highlights.

Abstract reveals "rural suicide rates have been shown to be disproportionately high in several countries. This study compares suicide rates in Cornwall with the rest of England and Wales over a 90-year period (1911-2001)."

Article states "nationally, the suicide rate for adults in rural areas was 17.94 per 100,000 people in 1995, the most recent numbers from the National Center for Health Statistics. In urban areas, the rate was 14.91."

Article notes "Chinese women are committing suicide at an alarming rate, especially in rural areas left out of the country's economic boom."

Media release details "Government mental health and suicide-prevention programs will provide timely support for people in rural Australia, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing, Christopher Pyne, said."

Details this paper focuses on a series of adolescent suicides which occurred in a small rural community in Western Canada between December 1989 and June 1990.

Details this Queensland-based pilot project that aims to help members of rural and remote communities to access information, education and support regarding suicide and its prevention.

Psychological autopsy case control study reveals "strong predictors of rural Chinese suicide are the psychopathological, psychological, and physical health variables, followed by social support and negative and stressful life events."

Read this study published in the British Journal of General Practice by P Halligan and P Corcoran.

Learn about this organization that partners with other Idaho suicide prevention groups to create an infrastructure for reducing suicide attempts and completions among Idaho youth aged 10-24 regardless of ethnic/racial heritage.

Details this case-control study that investigated a new hypothesis about suicide among farm operators, suggesting a biologically plausible link between exposures to certain pesticides and the occurrence of suicide among farm operators.

Ray King in this 1994 article reveals that "although the number of suicides in Australia has fallen over the last two years, the number of male and female suicides in rural Australia has increased (males 382 to 414 and females 64 to 70). Browse for detail

Details this organization, based in Orange, aims to bring quality education and research programmes to all rural areas of NSW through effective partnerships.

Shares "according to the Royal Flying Doctor Service, people in rural and remote areas suffer psychiatric disorders 28 per cent more than their urban counterparts."

Article reveals the World Health Organisation (WHO) says Australia has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, exceeding nations such as Canada, the United States and Britain.

Vandana Shiva discusses the impact of globalization on Indian farmers.

Discover this body, comprised of 26 member bodies, that works to improve the health of Australians in rural and remote areas.

Study evaluates whether urban/rural inequalities in suicide have grown for males and females during the 1980s and 1990s, a period of rapid social and economic change to New Zealand society.

2002 article from Asian Economic News reports "the suicide rate in rural China is four times higher than cities and particularly rural women are more prone to take their own lives.

Article reveals "the rate of rural suicide in Australia is amongst the highest in the world as farmers battle the stress of years of drought, failed crops, mounting debt and slowly decaying towns."

Article published by the World Socialist Web Site discusses the effect of poverty on a family in Baladangolla in Uva Province.