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Deliberate Self‐Poisoning, Unemployment, and Public Health

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation was to explore further the known relationship between deliberate self-poisoning and social deprivation. Each individual who attended one of Cork city's three casualty departments following an act of deliberate self-poisoning in 1988 was examined. The place of residence (ward) of each city resident patient was established. The social status of the city's 34 wards was estimated using a number of indices …

Authors

Kelleher MJ; Kelleher JA; Corcoran; Daly; Daly; Crowley J; Keeley

Journal

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 365–373

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

December 1996

DOI

10.1111/j.1943-278x.1996.tb00840.x

ISSN

0363-0234