TY - JOUR T1 - Does economic environment influence the strength of the positive association between suicide and unemployment? JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 1074 LP - 1075 DO - 10.1136/jech-2013-203403 VL - 67 IS - 12 AU - Peter Dome AU - Balazs Kapitany AU - Gabor Faludi AU - Xenia Gonda AU - Zoltan Rihmer Y1 - 2013/12/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/67/12/1074.abstract N2 - The ongoing economic crisis has spurred researchers to further investigate the positive association between unemployment and suicide.1 Two theories may explain the above association: the ‘causal’ theory (ie, job loss leads to the emergence of factors (eg, depression) that precipitate suicide) and the ‘selection’ theory (ie, subjects who are more prone to commit suicide (eg, suffer from mental illnesses) are also more prone to lose their job).2 ,3 The hypothesis that during economic booms suicide rate (SR) of the unemployed population is higher than it is during times of recession follows from … ER -