Steen and Mayer (2004) studied the effect of modernization on male-female suicide ratio in India during 1967 1997.
Actually, it was found that the female male suicide ratio has decreased sharply [ 12], because of the improvement in females' social-economic status in recent years [ 23].
4 6 In contrast, for much of the western world, the male female suicide ratio is typically large (2 4 times), while the difference in suicide rates between urban and rural populations, and between the young and the old, is much less pronounced.
The results demonstrated that higher quantity of provision was not negatively associated with standardised suicide mortality ratios.
Further, in an ecological study from the United Kingdom, Lewis and co-workers [ 36] examined the association between standardised suicide mortality ratios and the provision of mental health services.
Spearman's correlation coefficients between suicide rate ratios in 2009 and percentage point changes in unemployment rates between 2007 and 2009 were 0.25 (P=0.075) in men and 0.10 (P=0.49) in women.
Adjustment of suicide mortality ratios for occupational social class in other studies explains very little of the higher risk among Irish migrants, although greater risk has been reported for unmarried persons (Maxwell and Harding 1998).
Anorexia nervosa has the highest suicide mortality ratio of psychiatric disorders, suicide being associated with many factors.
Living alone was a risk factor for suicide (odds ratio 1.99; 95% CI 1.50 to 2.64), whereas living in a household of 3 or more persons was a relative risk for a suicide attempt (odds ratio 1.81; 95% CI 1.34 to 2.46).
In this group, 258 (54%) men and 125 (57%) women later successfully committed suicide (hazard ratio 6.2, 95% confidence interval 5.5 to 6.9, after adjustment for age, sex, education, immigrant status, and co-occurring psychiatric morbidity), and 333 (87%) did so with a year after the index attempt.
