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A Comparative Study on Elderly Suicide Rates in Korea and the United States and Its Implications

한·미 노인자살률의 비교 연구와 정책적 시사점

  • Received : 2015.12.16
  • Accepted : 2016.02.20
  • Published : 2016.02.28
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Abstract

Any comparative study has not been done between Korea and a certain country about the social economic factors of elderly suicide rates, even though there has been comparative studies among several nations. Therefore, this study is going to reveal how the macro-social economic factors are related to elderly suicide rates based on Korea and the United States, which show great gap of elderly suicide rate and have completely different aspect of increasing and decreasing rate of elderly suicide, as members of OECD. For this, trend analysis has been done between elderly suicide rates of both Korea and the United States for the past twenty years(1990-2009) and social economic factors, and correlation analysis also has been done at the same time. After all, this study is going to suggest policy implications for the prevention of elderly suicide in our society based on the results of the analysis.

노인자살률의 사회경제적인 요인에 대하여 다수 국가 간 비교분석은 있어도 우리나라와 특정 국가와의 집중적인 비교 연구는 없는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 OECD 국가의 일원으로서 노인자살률의 큰 격차를 보일뿐만 아니라 노인자살률 증감률의 정반대 양상을 보이고 있는 한국과 미국을 중심으로 거시 사회 경제적 요인과 노인자살률과 어떠한 관련성을 지니는 지를 일차적으로 규명하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 한국과 미국의 지난 20년간(1990-2009)의 노인자살률과 사회구조적 요인간의 경향분석과 동시에 상관관계 분석을 활용하였다. 아울러 분석결과를 기초로 우리사회의 노인자살 예방에 대한 정책적 시사점을 제언하고자 한다.

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