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#562 Jason Manning - Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction

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Does Sociology Tells About Suicide Prevention?

There's limits to the precision of our ideas and how effective they'll be. But when we look at some of these external things that affect suicide, you start having additional ideas for prevention beyond getting people their anidapressence. For example, there was one japanese prefecture that had a high suicide rate - partly because of economic stress. And it could be that those sorts of social welfare policies work per the effects of downward mobility on suicide.

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