Japan's Suicide Rate Rises 16% In Second Wave of Covid, Study Finds
Source: The Guardian
Rise in July to October, particularly among women and children, contrasts with decline in first wave. Suicide rates in Japan have risen sharply in the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly among women and children, even though they fell in the first wave when the government offered generous handouts to people, a survey found.
The July-October suicide rate rose 16% from the same period a year earlier, a stark reversal of the February-June decline of 14%, according to the study by researchers at Hong Kong University and Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.
Unlike normal economic circumstances, this pandemic disproportionately affects the psychological health of children, adolescents and females (especially housewives), the authors wrote in the study published on Friday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.
The early decline in suicides was affected by such factors as government subsidies, reduced working hours and school closure, the study found.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/16/japans-suicide-rate-rises-16-in-second-wave-of-covid-study-finds
But the decline reversed with the suicide rate rising 37% for women, about 5 times the increase among men as the prolonged pandemic hurt industries where women predominate, increasing the burden on working mothers, while domestic violence increased, the report said.
Based on health ministry data from Nov. 2016- Oct. 2020, the study found the child suicide rate rose 49% in the second wave, corresponding to the period after a nationwide school closure.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)absolutely
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)By that rate.
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)especially the US.
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)so sad, and then we get shocked again when someone famous does it.
progree
(10,909 posts)e.g. having to stay in their rooms the whole time and no visitors other than those window visits is causing many to just give up.
Not to mention conditions like these where there aren't enough caretakers, a widespread problem (another one for the "we live in a right wing hellhole list" )
Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows, AP, 11/19/20
One horror story after another about nursing home residents neglected and dying horrible deaths. And also that even in normal times, family visitors provided a lot of essential care, but when they were kept out, the already overworked staff just couldn't cope
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/11/19/not-just-covid-nursing-home-neglect-deaths-surge-in-shadows
BigmanPigman
(51,609 posts)assisted care (older Americans) but with Japan it is the opposite, women and students. Each society has its own issues.
progree
(10,909 posts)and 1/4 of Canada's.
Daily new cases per 100k, 7 day moving average
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps.html#countries
Hover your mouse over a country on the map.