Relationship of suicide rates to economic variables in Europe: 2000-2011

Konstantinos N Fountoulakis¹, Wolfram Kawohl¹, Pavlos N Theodorakis¹+46

• ¹Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, 3rd Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Wolfram Kawohl, MD, Center for Social Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Pavlos N. Theodorakis, MD, Mental Health Hospitals Trust of Attica 'Dafni & Dromokaiteio' and WHO National Counterpart for Mental Health, Athens, Greece; Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof, MD, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Alvydas Navickas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatric Clinic, Vilnius University Medical Faculty, Vilnius, Lithuania; Cyril Höschl, MD, Prague Psychiatric Center/NIMH, Czech Republic; Dusica Lecic-Tosevski, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Belgrade University School of Medicine and Institute of Mental Health, WHO Collaborating Centre, Belgrade, Serbia; Eliot Sorel, MD, The George Washington University, School of Medicine & School of Public Health, Washington DC, USA; Elmars Rancans, MD, PhD, Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Narcology, Riga Stradins University, Latvia; Eva Palova, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital, Slovakia; Georg Juckel, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Ruhr University Bochum, LWL-University Hospital, Bochum, Germany; Goran Isacsson, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; Helena Korosec Jagodic, Psychiatric Hospital Vojnik, Vojnik, Slovenia; Ileana Botezat-Antonescu, MD, Associate Professor, National Mental Health Center and Anti-drug, Bucharest, Romania; Ingeborg Warnke, PhD, Center for Social Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Psychiatric Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Janusz Rybakowski, Department of Adult Psychiatry, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland; Je