Farm Crisis and Suicide: Dying on the Vine?.

Ragland, John D.; Berman, Alan L.

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ERIC Number: EJ430821

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Farm Crisis and Suicide: Dying on the Vine?

Ragland, John D.; Berman, Alan L.

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, v22 n3 p173-85 1990-91

Examined relationship between farm economic crisis and farmer suicide rates using data from 15 states from 1980 to 1985. Found suicide rates for farmers were greater than truck drivers but no different from forestry workers. (Author/ABL)

Descriptors: Differences, Farmers, Incidence, Occupations, Suicide

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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