Pandemics and Social Cohesion: 1918-1920 Influenza Pandemic and the Reduction in US Suicide Rates

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• ² College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
• ³ Corresponding author: Tarun Bastiampillai, MBBS, FRANZCP, Department of Psychiatry, Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton 3800, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (tarun.bastiampillai@monash.edu).
• ⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Southern Adelaide Local Health Network, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
• ⁵ dDepartment of Psychiatry, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China.
• ⁶ Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, Australian National University Medical School, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia.