Effects of Detoxification of Domestic Gas on Suicide in the Netherlands
Abstract
Analysis of data from the Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek in the Netherlands showed that the suicide rate by domestic gas dropped from 1959 to 1975 as the percentage of carbon monoxide in domestic gas was reduced. Suicide by all other methods rose more sharply during the latter part of this period, suggesting that people may have switched methods for suicide.
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Switching methods is difficult because restricting access to a common method such as household coal gas in the United Kingdom and firearms in Switzerland was followed by large reductions in suicide rates mainly due to those methods, and very little method substitution even over several years.
“Switching methods is known to be difficult because restricting access to a common method—such as household coal gas in the United Kingdom (245-247) and firearms in Switzerland (248)—was followed by large reductions in suicide rates, mainly due to those methods, and very little method substitution even over several years.”
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- Authors
- Lester, D.
- Affiliations
- Stockton University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lester, David
- ORCID
- Lester, David
- Venue
- Psychological Reports
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1991-02
- Volume
- 68
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 202-202
- ISSN
- 0033-2941 (ISSN-L)
- 1558-691X
- OpenAlex
- W2037448848
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 0.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Reports (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Keywords
- suicide, carbon monoxide, suicide methods, suicide trends, Netherlands
- MeSH terms
- Cross-Sectional Studies, Gas Poisoning, Humans, Netherlands, Suicide, Incidence
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