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Suicide rates before, during and after the world wars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

D Lester*
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Suicide, RR41, 5 Stonegate Court, Blackwood, New Jersey08012, USA
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Summary

Suicide rates were found to decline during the major world wars of this century in both men and women and in both participating and non-participating nations. The increase in suicide rates after the conclusion of the wars, however, was not as pronounced.

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Copyright © Elsevier, Paris 1994

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