SEASON, CLIMATE AND SUICIDE IN SINGAPORE

Authors
KOK LP TSOI WF
Citation
Lp. Kok et Wf. Tsoi, SEASON, CLIMATE AND SUICIDE IN SINGAPORE, Medicine, Science and the Law, 33(3), 1993, pp. 247-252
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, Legal",Law,Pathology
Journal title
Medicine, Science and the Law → ACNP
ISSN journal
00258024
Volume
33
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
247 - 252
Database
ISI
SICI code
0025-8024(1993)33:3<247:SCASIS>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
In Singapore, an island city state in the tropics, climatic variables like sunlight, windspeed, temperature, rainfall and humidity are signi ficantly correlated with subgroups of suicidal subjects such as Malays , young adults and youths. In the young age group (0-19 years) the rel ationship between meteorological factors and suicide appear to be grea ter than in the other two groups.