Cross-cultural research widens suicide prevention horizons.

Abstract

“The rate of suicide varies greatly from country to country [. . .] and yet in each separate country the rate remains remarkably constant from year to year, except when some major event such as world war supervenes. This has prompted sociologists, from the time of Morselli and Durkheim to the present day, to try to identify some of the cultural and environmental factors that are responsible for this consistency.” (Carstairs, 1964).