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Suicide is a major public health problem. Birth cohort analyses in Canada (Solomon and Hellon 1980), the United States (Murphy and Wetzel 1980), Australia (Goldney and Katsikitis 1983), Austria (Vutuc and Gredler 1984), Sweden (Nordstrom and Âsgârd 1986), the Federal Republic of Germany (Hafner and Schmidtke 1985), and England and Wales (Murphy et al. 1986) have demonstrated an increase in the risk of suicide for young people, particularly for young adult males. The reasons for this shift in the age distribution of suicide mortality remain to be explored.
Financial support was given by the Swedish Society of Medical Sciences, the Swedish Medical Research Council (5454, 4545), and the Stockholm County Council.
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Nordström, P., Åsgård, U. (1988). Birth Cohort Analysis of Suicide Mortality in Sweden. In: Möller, HJ., Schmidtke, A., Welz, R. (eds) Current Issues of Suicidology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73358-1_4
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