Wars and Suicides in Israel, 1948–2006
International Center for Health, Law and Ethics, Department of Psychology, Law and Ethics, University of Haifa, Mount Camel, Haifa 31905, Israel
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2012, 9(5), 1927-1938; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph9051927
Received: 13 March 2012 / Accepted: 11 May 2012 / Published: 18 May 2012
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Suicide Prevention and Public Health)
This paper reports the characteristics of suicides which occurred during the existential and the non-existential wars in Israel. It provides a first approximation of whether the suicide patterns in each war are consistent with the findings of Morselli and Durkheim, and whether their theoretical interpretations can serve as a preliminary guideline to explaining the Israeli case, which is characterized by short periods of war, social integration during some of the non-existential wars, and a sharp rise in post-war male suicide rates following all of the existential wars. Implications for further studies on the subject in Israel and elsewhere are discussed.
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Keywords:
Israel; suicide; existential and non-existential wars
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Oron, I. Wars and Suicides in Israel, 1948–2006. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2012, 9, 1927-1938. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph9051927
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Oron I. Wars and Suicides in Israel, 1948–2006. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2012; 9(5):1927-1938. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph9051927
Chicago/Turabian StyleOron, Israel. 2012. "Wars and Suicides in Israel, 1948–2006" Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 9, no. 5: 1927-1938. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ijerph9051927
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