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Re:As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide by anigbrowl on Sunday February 17, 2013 @03:07PM (#5236508)
So why don't EU countries have a very high suicide rate, since they have even more pervasive welfare states? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134928/pdf/jivr...
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Re:As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide by uvdiv on Sunday February 17, 2013 @03:45PM (#5236668)
Your paper shows that some of them do. In all four tables (age/sex subgroups), the top quartile includes France, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as South Korea. Germany is in the top quartile for females.
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Re:As Families Change, Korea’s Elderly Are Turning to Suicide by anigbrowl on Sunday February 17, 2013 @04:10PM (#5236740)
It's the ones that don't which disprove the hypothesis. Ireland and the UK both have pervasive public health systems, with nursing homes being a more common destination for the aged than living with children, but are only in the second quartile.
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