Excess suicides due to the global economic crisis in Italy: an update
roberto de vogli, Rossella De Falco, Giorgio Mattei
A previous research letter examining the impact of the Great Recession on suicides in Italy showed that, analogous to other high-income Countries, suicides were falling before the economic downturn, but rapidly reversed upon the onset of the crisis in 2008.1 The analysis, however, presented some limitations, including biases related to the classification and interpretation of the circumstances of suicide in the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) database that relied on narrative ve…
