Find resources relating to suicide and suicide prevention in rural or remote communities.
| ACROSSnet - http://www.acrossnet.net.au/ 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. - [Read more] |
| BJGP - The impact of patient suicide on rural general practitioners - http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1313980 Read this study published in the British Journal of General Practice by P Halligan and P Corcoran. - [Read more] |
| Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH) - http://www.crrmh.com.au/ Details this organization, based in Orange, aims to bring quality education and research programmes to all rural areas of NSW through effective partnerships. - [Read more] |
| Changing patterns of suicide in a poor, rural county over the 20th century : A comparison with natio - http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=17064593 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)." - [Read more] |
| countercurrents.org - The Suicide Economy of Corporate Globalisation - http://www.countercurrents.org/glo-shiva050404.htm Vandana Shiva discusses the impact of globalization on Indian farmers. - [Read more] |
| Culture, risk factors and suicide in rural China - http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0447.2004.00388.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=acp 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 more] |
| Defra - Farmer Suicide Rates - http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/indicators/d704_data.htm 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 more] |
| Find Articles - Suicide rate in rural China 4 times higher than cities - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_2002_Dec_2/ai_94754546 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. - [Read more] |
| Have Urban/Rural Suicide Inequalities Grown in New Zealand from 1980-2001? - http://www.geog.canterbury.ac.nz/research/staff/suicide.shtml 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. - [Read more] |
| Health Insite - Rural Health - http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Rural_Health 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. - [Read more] |
| Health Matters - Mental state of the nation - http://abc.net.au/health/features/mentalstate/ 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." - [Read more] |
| heatisonline - Drought Prompts Surge of Suicides Among Australian Farmers - http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?id=5272&method=full 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. - [Read more] |
| National Rural Health Alliance - http://nrha.ruralhealth.org.au/?IntCatId=14 Discover this body, comprised of 26 member bodies, that works to improve the health of Australians in rural and remote areas. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Cluster suicide in rural western Canada - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8242525&dopt=Abstract 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. - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Rural suicide--people or place effects? - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16476147&dopt=Abstract 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." - [Read more] |
| NCBI - Suicide mortality and pesticide use among Canadian farmers - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9750943&dopt=Abstract 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. - [Read more] |
| Planet Art - Drought Casts Suicide Shadow over Rural Australia - http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31138/story.htm 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." - [Read more] |
| Review Journal - Rural Suicide: Soaring rates puzzling - http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2000/Oct-16-Mon-2000/news/14605459.html 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." - [Read more] |
| RFA - Suicide Rampant Among China's Rural Women, Urban Middle Class - http://www.rfa.org/english/news/2006/08/30/china_suicide/ Article notes "Chinese women are committing suicide at an alarming rate, especially in rural areas left out of the country's economic boom." - [Read more] |
| Rural Assistance Center - Suicide Prevention - http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/suicide/ Become familiar with this guide that includes an overview, FAQ, tools and other resources. - [Read more] |
| Rural Health - Preventing Rural Youth Suicide - http://www.rhef.com.au/programs/307/307.html Offers a DVD / video that provides information on youth suicide in rural Australia. See highlights. - [Read more] |
| Rural Mental Health and Suicide - http://www.responseability.org/site/index.cfm?display=25864 Browse to become familiar with this resource that details suicide in rural and remote communities in Australia. - [Read more] |
| Rural suicide-prevention projects increasingly important - http://www.health.gov.au/internet/ministers/publishing.nsf/Content/health-mediarel-yr2006-cp-pyn066.htm?OpenDocument&yr=2006&mth=10 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." - [Read more] |
| Some Notes and Data on Rural Suicide - http://www.narmh.org/pages/resnotes.html Article by Peter G. Beeson offers this article and provides resources and references. - [Read more] |
| Suicide and mental health in rural, remote and metropolitan areas in Australia - http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/181_07_041004/cal10801_fm.html 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." - [Read more] |
| Suicide prevention: dilemmas and some solutions - http://www.csu.edu.au/research/crsr/ruralsoc/v4n3p2.htm 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 - [Read more] |
| wsws.org - Grinding rural poverty leads to suicide in Sri Lanka - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/sri-d28.shtml Article published by the World Socialist Web Site discusses the effect of poverty on a family in Baladangolla in Uva Province. - [Read more] |
