The impact of media reporting on the emergence of charcoal burning suicide in Taiwan.

We investigated the association of the intensity of newspaper reporting of charcoal burning suicide with the incidence of such deaths in Taiwan during 1998-2002. A counting process approach was used to estimate the incidence of suicides and intensity of news reporting. Conditional Poisson generalize...

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Main Authors: Ying-Yeh Chen, Feng Chen, David Gunnell, Paul S F Yip
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3559477?pdf=render