Does air pollution trigger suicide? A case-crossover analysis of suicide deaths over the life span. [1]
Peer reviewed scientific article
SCIENSANO
Auteurs
Casas, Lidia [2]; Cox, Bianca [3]; Mariska Bauwelinck [4]; Nemery, Benoit [5]; Deboosere, Patrick [6]; Nawrot, Tim Steve [7]Trefwoorden
Samenvatting:
In addition to underlying health disorders and socio-economic or community factors, air pollution may trigger suicide mortality. This study evaluates the association between short-term variation in air pollution and 10 years of suicide mortality in Belgium. In a bidirectional time-stratified case-crossover design, 20,533 suicide deaths registered between January 1st 2002 and December 31st 2011 were matched by temperature with control days from the same month and year. We used municipality-level air pollution [particulate matter (PM10) and O3 concentrations] data and meteorology data. We app…