Lester D
Center for the Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012.
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1992 Jan;85(1):15-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1992.tb01435.x.
Data from 15 countries indicate that the death rates from causes recorded as suicide, undetermined and certain types of accidents are not significantly associated. Thus, it did not appear that some countries have lower suicide rates because their suicides are hidden as undetermined or accidental deaths. Furthermore, adding the undetermined death rate and a portion of the accidental death rate to the suicide rate did not greatly change the relative rankings of the national suicide rates.
来自15个国家的数据表明，记录为自杀、死因不明和某些类型事故的死亡率之间没有显著关联。因此，似乎并非有些国家自杀率较低是因为其自杀被隐藏为死因不明或意外死亡。此外，将死因不明死亡率和部分意外死亡率加到自杀率上，并没有大幅改变各国自杀率的相对排名。
