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Social Determinants of Suicides in the Czech Republic between 1995 and 2010
2016
Czech Sociological Review
The text is concerned with suicides in the Czech Republic. It seeks to determine which social variables, and to what extent, have affected suicidal behaviour since 1989. The authors draw on Durkheim's theory that society prevents suicidal tendencies. They formulate six hypotheses to account for the effects of social variables (year, sex, age, education, and marital status) on suicide rates, which they test using data from 1995 to 2010. Their fi ndings show that time weakens the odds for
doi:10.13060/00380288.2016.52.3.260
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