Ambient air pollution and completed suicide in 26 South Korean cities: Effect modification by demographic and socioeconomic factors

Air pollution has been recently associated with suicide mortality. However, limited studies have examined possible effect modification of the association by various demographic and socioeconomic factors, despite their crucial roles on suicide risk. In 73,445 completed suicide cases from 26 South Kor...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Science of the total environment 2018-10, Vol.639, p.944-951
Hauptverfasser:	Lee, Hyewon, Myung, Woojae, Kim, Satbyul Estella, Kim, Doh Kwan, Kim, Ho
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Air Pollutants - analysis Air pollution Air Pollution - statistics & numerical data Ambient air pollutants Cities Demography Effect modification Environmental Exposure - statistics & numerical data Environmental Monitoring Humans Male Nitrogen Dioxide Ozone Particulate Matter Republic of Korea - epidemiology Socioeconomic Factors Socioeconomic status Suicide Suicide - statistics & numerical data Sulfur Dioxide Time Factors
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Zusammenfassung:	Air pollution has been recently associated with suicide mortality. However, limited studies have examined possible effect modification of the association by various demographic and socioeconomic factors, despite their crucial roles on suicide risk. In 73,445 completed suicide cases from 26 South Korean cities from 2002 to 2013, we studied the association of suicide risk with exposure to particles
ISSN:	0048-9697 1879-1026
DOI:	10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.210