Rockett, Ian R.H.; Smith, Gordon S. - In: Social Science & Medicine 36 (1993) 11, pp. 1467-1472
A hypothesis is generated that despite high reported rates, suicide among elderly Japanese females is substantially underestimated due to misclassification of drowning suicides (ICD-9 E954) as unintensional drownings (ICD-9 E910). Data are adapted from 1979-1981 age-, sex- and cause-specific...