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in Scotland far higher than rest of UK
September
7, 2006
Suicide rates in Scotland are much higher than in the rest of the
UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The suicide rate for men in Scotland was 50 per cent higher than
for the UK as a whole from 1991 to 2004, figures published last
month showed.
And the suicide rate for Scottish women in the same period was almost
double that of the UK.
Deprivation remained the main risk
factor for suicide, with the proportion of people taking their own
lives in the most deprived areas of the UK being twice the rate in
the richest areas between 1999 and 2003.
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