The effect of altitude and climate on the suicide rates in Turkey

Aşırdizer M., KARTAL E., Etli Y., Tatlisumak E., Gumus O., Hekimoglu Y., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF FORENSIC AND LEGAL MEDICINE, cilt.54, ss.91-95, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 54
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.jflm.2017.12.012
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF FORENSIC AND LEGAL MEDICINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.91-95
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Suicide, Altitude, Climate, Temperature, Rainfall, LONG-TERM, TEMPERATURE, MORTALITY, RISK, ASSOCIATION, DEPRESSION, TAIWAN, EUROPE, TRENDS
  • Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Suicide is one of the most important public health problems. There was an association between suicide and several factors such as psychiatric diseases and psychological characteristics, somatic illness, cultural, socioeconomic, familial, occupational and individual risk factors. Also, high altitude and climatic factors including high temperature, cloudiness, more sunshine and low rainfalls were defined as some of these risk factors in the literature.