Related News
Suicides rise among urban elderly
Source: Xinhua |
September 28, 2010, Tuesday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
THE suicide rate among elderly people in urban areas has risen dramatically in recent years, an expert told a seminar at Peking University yesterday.
The number of urban residents aged 70 to 74 who took their own lives reached 33.76 per 100,000 each year between 2002 and 2008, compared to a figure of 13.39 per 100,000 in the 1990s, said Professor Jing Jun of the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University.
Rising medical costs and hardship following relocations contributed to their despair, said Jing.
However, the seminar heard that due to a significant decline in the suicide rate among rural women over the past 20 years, China's national suicide rate declined from 17.65 per 100,000 in 1987 to 6.6 per 100,000 in 2008. This is well below the 2008 global rate of 14.5 per 100,000, said Jing.
Urban migration, taking many rural women out of a subordinate role, may partly explain the fall, said Jing.
The number of urban residents aged 70 to 74 who took their own lives reached 33.76 per 100,000 each year between 2002 and 2008, compared to a figure of 13.39 per 100,000 in the 1990s, said Professor Jing Jun of the Department of Sociology at Tsinghua University.
Rising medical costs and hardship following relocations contributed to their despair, said Jing.
However, the seminar heard that due to a significant decline in the suicide rate among rural women over the past 20 years, China's national suicide rate declined from 17.65 per 100,000 in 1987 to 6.6 per 100,000 in 2008. This is well below the 2008 global rate of 14.5 per 100,000, said Jing.
Urban migration, taking many rural women out of a subordinate role, may partly explain the fall, said Jing.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
