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| Title |
Confluence of suicide and drug overdose epidemics in young Australian males: common causality?
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-018-5875-x |
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| Authors |
Richard Taylor, Andrew Page, Alex Wodak, Michael Dudley, Sonali Munot, Stephen Morrell |
| Abstract |
Young adult (aged 20-34) males experience higher mortality than females, and in age groups immediately younger and older, and with considerable variation in death rates over time. Trends in mortality and the cause structure of deaths among young adult Australian males over 1979-2011 are investigated, with a focus on suicide and drug overdose. Mortality data by age for the period 1979 to 2011 and Australian population figures were obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Cause of death was investigated using relevant International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, and mortality by cause was examined graphically over time according to various ICD aggregations. Mortality trends were contextualised in relation to labour market changes occurring in Australia from the 1980s to early 2000s. Although motor vehicle accident (MVA) mortality declined by half between 1980 and 1998 in males, this did not translate into a reduction in total young male mortality because of simultaneous increases in suicide, and drug-related deaths classified as either poisoning (external cause) or drug dependence (mental disorders). When both suicide and drug-related deaths declined concurrently after 1998, total 20-34 year male mortality declined by almost half (46%) over 1998-2011. Declines in external cause mortality accounted for 63% of the total mortality decline in 20-34 year males over 1998-2011. The close temporal coincidence (statistically significant) of increases and declines in suicide and drug-related deaths over a decade suggests related causality. The coincidence of young male suicide and drug overdose mortality epidemics over the study period (excess deaths: 5000) suggest related causality such as exposure to common factors, including the labour market liberalisation and de-regulation of the 1990s, and deserves further investigation. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 57% |
| Australia | 2 | 29% |
| Unknown | 1 | 14% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 29% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 30 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 30 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 5 | 17% |
| Researcher | 4 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 10% |
| Other | 2 | 7% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 7% |
| Other | 3 | 10% |
| Unknown | 11 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 6 | 20% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 7% |
| Unknown | 12 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2018.
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#8,281,532
of 25,420,980 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#9,170
of 17,573 outputs
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#131,557
of 341,697 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#241
of 325 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 17,573 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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