Spatial clustering of suicide mortality and associated community characteristics in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, 2011–2017

Spatial clustering of suicide mortality and associated community characteristics in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, 2011–2017

Abstract Background Suicide mortality is high in Japan and early interventional strategies to solve that problem are needed. An accurate evaluation of the regional status of current suicide mortality would be useful for community interventions. A few studies in Kanagawa prefecture, located next to T...

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Main Authors: Kazue Yamaoka, Masako Suzuki, Mariko Inoue, Hirono Ishikawa, Toshiro Tango
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Psychiatry
Subjects:
Suicide
Mortality
Spatial epidemiology
Bayes estimates
Cluster detection test, global test, FleXScan, SaTScan
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-020-2479-7

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