harshpatel674

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GapMinder

I have decided to use the Gapminder data to see if I can better understand the link between unemployment and suicide in males.

There have been many different studies linking or attempting to link unemployment and the general economy with suicide - some of these include;

Unemployment and Mental Health: Understanding the Interactions Among Gender, Family Roles, and Social Class | Lucía Artazcoz, MPH, Joan Benach, PhD, Carme Borrell, PhD, and Immaculada Cortès, MPH - In a nutshell, this paper concludes that unemployment has varying effects on mental health and varies with factors such as sex, marital status, term of unemployment and if welfare benefits are available

Sex and Suicide, Gender differences in suicidal behavior - Keith Hawton - Editorial in the British journal of Psychiatry - Mr Hawton concludes that there is a difference in the ratio of suicide between males and females but that much more research is required to discover strategies to improve outcomes in either sex or both sexes

The gender gap in suicide and premature death or: why are men so vulnerable? Anne Maria Moller-Leimkuhler - Posits that male mal-adaption may be responsible for the increasing proportion of male to female suicide rates and includes one particularly stunning table ranking male youth suicide by country

There are many papers on this subject and it seems that while unemployment has an effect on suicide rates it seems that WHERE you are unemployed is probably more important. I will attempt to show that this IS the case and try to discover some of the reasons it may be so