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1 .Project grantholder s:Professor Stephen Platt, Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change ( RUHBC) , University of Edinburgh; Professor Paul Boyle, School of Geography & Geosciences, St Andrews University; Professor Iain Crombie, Department of Public Health, Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Dundee. Project staff: Dr Zhiqiang Feng and Dr Dan Exeter, School of Geography & Geosciences, St Andrews University
2. For the purposes of this study, a suicide death is defined to comprise both those deaths which are officially classified as suicide/intentional self harm and also 'undetermined' deaths. This is in line with international research practice.
3. Originally 1994-2003
4. See glossary
5. Social class is an individual measure of socio-economic position, with low social class indicating a higher risk of poverty/deprivation, whereas socio-economic deprivation is an area-based measure.
6. As Choose Life was launched in December 2002, the impact of the Choose Life strategy will be assessed by consideration of data from 2003 onwards.
7. See glossary
8. Age-adjusted rates eliminate the bias of age in the composition of populations being compared, thereby providing a much more reliable rate for comparison purposes.
9. See glossary
10. See glossary
11. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/DS16/DS16_cap12.pdf.
12. See glossary
13. Originally 1994-2003
14. See glossary
15. Social class is an individual measure of socio-economic position, with low social class indicating a higher risk of poverty/deprivation, whereas socio-economic deprivation is an area-based measure.
16. As Choose Life was launched in December 2002, the impact of the Choose Life strategy will be assessed by consideration of data from 2003 onwards.
17. See glossary
18. See glossary
19. See glossary
20. See glossary
21. http://census.ac.uk/casweb/
22. the Census Output Area is the smallest unit of geography in the Scottish Census (average of 50 households)
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