The effect of altitude and climate on the suicide rates in Turkey

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dc.authoridHEKIMOGLU, YAVUZ/0000-0001-9990-6045
dc.authoridAsirdizer, Mahmut/0000-0001-7596-5892
dc.authoridKartal, Erhan/0000-0003-2459-7756
dc.authorwosidEtli, Yasin/IAM-4569-2023
dc.authorwosidHEKIMOGLU, YAVUZ/A-8409-2017
dc.authorwosidAsirdizer, Mahmut/AAA-2897-2020
dc.authorwosidKartal, Erhan/AAX-4265-2020
dc.contributor.authorAsirdizer, Mahmut
dc.contributor.authorKartal, Erhan
dc.contributor.authorEtli, Yasin
dc.contributor.authorTatlisumak, Ertugrul
dc.contributor.authorGumus, Orhan
dc.contributor.authorHekimoglu, Yavuz
dc.contributor.authorKeskin, Siddik
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-04T20:44:15Z
dc.date.available2024-08-04T20:44:15Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.departmentİnönü Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractSuicide is one of the most important public health problems. There was an association between suicide and several factors such as psychiatric diseases and psychological characteristics, somatic illness, cultural, socioeconomic, familial, occupational and individual risk factors. Also, high altitude and climatic factors including high temperature, cloudiness, more sunshine and low rainfalls were defined as some of these risk factors in the literature. In this study, we aimed to investigate correlation between suicide rates and altitudes of all cities in Turkey and between suicide rates and climatic factors including Rainfall Activity Index, Winter Mean Temperatures, Summer Mean Temperatures and Temperature Difference between January and July previously defined by several authors in the broad series in Turkey. In Turkey, 29865 suicidal deaths occurred in 10 years period between 2006 and 2015. Of them, 21020 (70.4%) were males and 8845 (29.6%) were females. In this study, we found that high altitude above 1500 m, winter median temperature lower than - 10 degrees C and hard temperature changes above 25 degrees C between winter and summer of settlements were important factors that affected on female suicide rates appropriate to knowledge which defined in previous studies. In conclusion, we suggested that the associations among suicide rates with altitudes and climate should be studied in wider series obtained from different countries for reaching more reliable results.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jflm.2017.12.012
dc.identifier.endpage95en_US
dc.identifier.issn1752-928X
dc.identifier.issn1532-2009
dc.identifier.pmid29334635en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85040326761en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage91en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2017.12.012
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11616/98110
dc.identifier.volume54en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000426432400017en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevier Sci Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Forensic and Legal Medicineen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectSuicideen_US
dc.subjectAltitudeen_US
dc.subjectClimateen_US
dc.subjectTemperatureen_US
dc.subjectRainfallen_US
dc.titleThe effect of altitude and climate on the suicide rates in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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