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L T Ruzicka

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PubMed1998

Suicide in countries and areas of the ESCAP region.

"In the ESCAP [Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific] region each year more than half a million people die by suicide and over 5 million attempt to kill themselves. This article collates available evidence about the incidence, age and sex patterns of suicide mortality in selected countries and areas of the region. It discusses cultural and legal attitudes towards suicide, as well as the social and health implications of the problem. It concludes by outlining some of the attempts that could be made at prevention both by governments and civil society."

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PubMed1996

A note on suicide in Russia, 1965-1993.

"Recently, the Centre for Demography and Human Ecology in Moscow in collaboration with the Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques in Paris undertook a reconstruction of registered deaths in individual republics of the former Soviet Union.... The present article extracts from the data set information on registered suicide mortality and reviews its trends and age and sex patterns. The link between alcoholism and suicide is strongly suggested."

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PubMed1994

Progress in demographic methodology.

"This paper examines developments in demographic methodology during the past decade or so. It focuses on methodological advances in the analysis of mortality of infants and young children, of adults, and on problems of mortality estimation in small populations. The other major areas reviewed here are related to the study of birth intervals, parity progression, proximate determinants of fertility, and the demography of the family. Concluding remarks relate the methodological issues to the information explosion in demography."

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PubMed1993

Suicide mortality in Australia, 1970-1991.

"This paper contains results of a study into changes in rates of suicide in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. The study found that there was a significant divergence of suicide mortality rates between males and females, with male rates increasing in the last twenty years and female rates showing a general decline. The increase in male rates was highest at ages under 30 and over 80 years of age. The differences in rates between marital status groups have remained large. The study also analysed birthplace differentials in suicides and included some data from overseas countries for comparisons."

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PubMed1990

The use of cause-of-death statistics for health situation assessment: national and international experiences.

About 80 countries or areas regularly report detailed cause-of-death data to WHO based on the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death (ICD). These data refer to about 35% of all deaths estimated to occur in the world, although the actual coverage may be somewhat higher due to the representativeness of data-collection schemes in countries such as China. These data are systematically validated and documented by WHO before their dissemination, principally through publication in the World health statistics annual. This article describes the collection and use of these data by WHO for assessing the global and regional health situation, and for monitoring trends in health status. In addition, several issues in the use of mortality data and the ICD for national health situation assessment are discussed, including the need for documenting the quality and coverage of cause-of-death statistics, identifying biases and evaluating mortality trends.

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PubMed1987

Recent trends in fertility and family formation.

"Australia's fertility has declined significantly since the 1950s, and has remained below the long-term replacement level since 1976. The current trend appears to be towards a further decline. This paper describes the patterns of the fertility decline in terms of age and parity of the mother, and the effect on recent fertility decline of the postponement of marriage and family formation. The implications of the continued decline in fertility on completed family size are studied by reference to fertility patterns of marriage cohorts."

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Demographic and social profile of suicide mortality in Australia.

"In Australia, death rates from suicide of young and middle-aged men increased between the early 1970s and the early 1990s, whereas those of older men and of women declined markedly. The article identifies the possible extent of underreporting of suicides. The study then examines variations in the incidence of suicide by selected social characteristics of the population: marital status, social class and economic conditions, province of residence and country of birth. It closes by suggesting a tentative conceptual model linking social structures with levels of suicide." (SUMMARY IN ITA AND FRE)

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