The Epidemiology of Women’s Suicidal Behavior (IN: Women and Suicidal Behavior, edited by S S Canetto & D Lester)

This chapter reviews the data on the epidemiology of suicidal behaviours in women. The first part of the chapter deals with the nature of the data, & specifically issues of data comprehensiveness, validity & reliability. The chapter’s second part critically reviews the information on rates of nonfatal and fatal suicidal behaviour. (116 refs.)