National Taiwan University professor Lin Hsien indicates that although mental illness outbreak studies have looked into the suicide problem, the number of suicides has not been entered into the sphere of research.
台灣大學教授林憲指出，雖然精神流行病學曾探討自殺問題，自殺死亡人口卻未被列入研究範圍；已開發國家已確立自殺事件的處理制度，有較詳細的資料可統計，但開發中、未開發國家恐怕就付諸闕如。