The Economist (June 27)
2014/ 06/ 30 by jd in Global News
China has racked up many achievements in recent years. One of the more befuddling is the drop in suicides, which have been more than halved in a decade. “In the 1990s China had one of the highest suicide rates in the world.” Now they are among the lowest. “No country has ever achieved such a rapid decline in suicides. And yet, experts say, China has done it without a significant improvement in mental-health services—and without any national publicity effort to lower suicides.”
Tags: Achievements, China, Mental-health services, Publicity, Suicides
