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> since the 80s It's very difficult to compare US data from before 1999 because the method of coding changed. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001
by DanBC 6y ago
> since the 80s
It's very difficult to compare US data from before 1999 because the method of coding changed.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001a11.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6001a11.htm
> Because coding of the mortality data changed to the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) beginning in 1999, analyses by year and race/ethnicity were conducted for 1999--2007 to examine rate changes during that period.
> I've heard the argument before (temporary idea and effective means), which probably is true of the non-terminally ill. I haven't seen any data supporting it so far.
There's a few natural experiments that are relevant: limiting pack sizes for paracetamol in the UK; change from coal gas to natural gas in the UK in the 1960s; change to cars with catalytic convertors.
- giantg2 6y agoI see them mention a change in that study and that they did some binomial regression for ethnicity in those years. But it seems that's for secondary attributes like ethnicity, not for the main cause of death (suicide). Or am I missing something? I'm aware of those examples. Those examples were before the internet, meaning people commit suicide they way they know how. Socially, you couldn't just ask someone how to commit suicide with an alternative method, but now you can look it up on online so you don't have to ask anyone. The coal gas example does show a reasonable reduction (18-13). But after the conversion process was completed, you see it's still creeps back up to 15 just within a couple years. The paracetamol example might actually go against your argument. We see that the suicide rate overall is very steady after the package size change, which suggests that people found other methods.