Access to healthcare
Study | Design | Time period | Country (region) | Intervention | Results | Direction of association |
Lester et al, 1996S1 | Time-Series | 1971–1989 | Japan | Opened 35 suicide prevention centres during the intervention period. | Suicide prevention centres were associated with reductions in suicide mortality among men (β=−0.52; p<0.05) but not women (β=0.07) only when adjusting for birth rate. | Total: - Male: -- Female: + |
--, statistically significant reduction; β, beta coefficient; -, not statistically significant reduction; +, not statistically significant increase.