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Table of Contents:

• ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""About the Authors""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Book Outline""; ""2 Rationale Behind Suicide Prevention Policies""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Bereaved Family Members of Suicide Victims""; ""2.1 Estimating the Number of People Who Became Bereaved in 1993â#x80;#x93;2006""; ""Spouses""; ""Siblings""; ""Parents""; ""Children""; ""2.2 Estimating the Total Number of Living Bereaved Family Members in 2006""; ""Estimating the Total Number of Living Family Members Who Became Bereaved from 1993 to 2006""
• ""Estimating the Total Number of Living Family Members Who Became Bereaved Before 1992""""2.3 Results""; ""Estimate of the Number of People Who Became Bereaved in 1993â#x80;#x93;2006""; ""Estimate of the Total Number of Bereaved Family Members Who Were Living in 2006""; ""Costs of Suicides in Japan""; ""3 The Werther Effect""; ""4 Social Costs of Suicide""; ""4.1 Social Losses Caused by the Loss of Individuals""; ""Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL)""; ""4.2 Lifetime Work-Loss Cost of Suicide""; ""5 Market Imperfections and Distortions in Incentives""; ""5.1 Credit Market Imperfections""
• ""5.2 Life Insurance Market Imperfections""""6 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""3 Socioeconomic Causes of Suicide""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Factors of Suicide Viewed from an Economic Standpoint""; ""2.1 Income and Its Inequality""; ""2.2 Economic Growth and Economic Crisis""; ""2.3 Employment Situation""; ""3 Suicide Trends in Japan Through Cross-National Comparison""; ""4 Suicide Trends in Japan Viewed Chronologically: Jump, Inertia, Age Change, and Decline""; ""4.1 Decomposition of Japanese Suicides""; ""4.2 Increase in the Number of Suicides from 1997 to 1998""
• ""Decomposition of the 1997â#x80;#x93;1998 Suicide Growth Rate, by Gender, Age, and Population Structure""""Decomposition of the 1997â#x80;#x93;1998 Suicide Growth Rate, by Gender, Age, and Reasons for Suicide""; ""Decomposition of the 1997â#x80;#x93;1998 Suicide Growth Rate, by Employment Status and Reasons for Suicide""; ""Decomposition of the 1997â#x80;#x93;1998 Suicide Growth Rate, by Gender and Means of Suicide""; ""4.3 The Persistence of Suicide Since 1998""; ""Decomposition of the Cumulative Suicide Growth Rate from 1998 to 2007, by Gender, Age, and Population Structure""
• ""Decomposition of the Cumulative Suicide Growth Rate from 1999 to 2006, by Gender, Age, and Reasons for Suicide""""Decomposition of the Cumulative Suicide Growth Rate from 1999 to 2006, by Employment Status and Reasons for Suicide""; ""Decomposition of Cumulative Suicide Growth Rate from 1998 to 2007, by Gender and Means of Suicide""; ""4.4 The Link Between Economic Hardship and Suicide""; ""4.5 Regression Analysis""; ""Regression Model of Choi et al. (2012b, 2015)""; ""Data""; ""Estimation Results of Choi et al. (2012b, 2015)""; ""5 Recent Decline""; ""6 Concluding Remarks""; ""References""

Contributors:

Sawada, Yasuyuki, 1967-

Ueda, Michiko (College teacher)

Matsubayashi, Tetsuya

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Economy and social inclusion

Subjects:

Suicide — Prevention

Suicide — Prevention — Government policy

Suicide — Prevention — Economic aspects

General Notes:

Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 2, 2017)
Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HV6545 .E266 2017eb

ISBNs:

9789811015007 (electronic bk.)
9811015007 (electronic bk.)
9789811014994 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1008877120

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5113726 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14948134