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Article: Suicide in immigrant populations in Australia: The last four decades. (Suicide).(Brief Article)
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- Youth Studies Australia
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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P. Burvill, Synergy, Winter 2000, pp.3-4, 29-35.
A review of the literature on suicide in immigrant populations in Australia during the past four decades revealed that the most dramatic change in the pattern of suicide has been the marked increase in young male suicides since the 1980s. This pattern is similar to that reported for most, but not all, European and Western countries. Immigrants from countries with higher overall rates of suicide than Australia had similar high young male rates. However, in immigrant groups from countries with low suicide rates, i.e. Asia, the ...
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