Is Consumer Spending an Indicator of Changes in the Suicide Rate? - A Study Based on Trends in Tsu City

Ken INOUE1), Tatsushige FUKUNAGA2), Yuji OKAZAKI3), Shuntaro ABE4), Masayuki NATA5)and Yasuyuki FUJITA1) 1)Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Shimane 693-8501, Japan 2)Tokyo Medical Examiner’s Office, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan 3)Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital, Tokyo 156-0057, Japan 4)Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka Medical College, Osaka 569-8686, Japan 5)Department of Forensic Medicine and Sciences, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie 5148507, Japan (Received August 6, 2013; Accepted August 15, 2013)