Suicides Mortality of Unemployed Individuals Becomes a Serious Public Health Concern in Japan in Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era
Journal: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Year: 2025

Identification of temporal relations among suicide mortality and economic/political implementations provides important information for not only planning suicide prevention but also socioeconomic/psychosocial measures. This cross-sectional observation study analyzed temporal fluctuations and causalities of suicide mortalities of working-age individuals, disaggregated by age/gender/social standing (employed/unemployed), in Japan from 2009 to 2024, using government databases, by joinpoint and vecto