Projections of Temperature-Related Suicide under Climate Change Scenarios in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The impact of climate change on mental health largely remains to be evaluated. Although growing evidence has reported a short-term association between suicide and temperature, future projections of temperature-attributable suicide have not been thoroughly examined.

Objectives

We aimed to project the excess temperature-related suicide mortality in Japan under three climate change scenarios until the 2090s.

Methods

Daily time series of mean temperature and the number of suicide deaths in 1973-2015 were collected for 47 prefectures in Japan. A two-stage time-stratified case-crossover analysis was used to estimate the temperature-suicide association. We obtained the modeled daily temperature series using five general circulation models under three climate chang

SUBMITTER: Thawonmas R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10666824 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature