Poverty, Suicide, and Homicide among Native Americans
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 67 (3_suppl) , 1153-1154
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1990.67.3f.1153
Abstract
Analysis of data for 12 areas of the Indian Health Services available from the US Department of Health and Human Services yielded a correlation (ρ) of .65 between poverty and suicide and a significant rho of. 52 with homicide rates. The Navajo area is an exception, raising for study questions about social disintegration.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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