Suicide and homicide after the fall of communist regimes
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Psychiatry
- Vol. 13 (2) , 98-100
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(98)80025-4
Abstract
Summary: Both suicide and homicide rates rose in nations formed after the formal break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. Homicide rates, but not suicide rates rose in Eastern European nations after the fall of their communist regimes in 1989.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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