Suicide during 1961–70 of migrants in Australia

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1982, Pages 295-308

  Woodings, T L ^a   Stenhouse, N S ^a   McCall, M G ^a   Burvill, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC OR RACIAL ASPECTS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; SHORT SURVEY; SUICIDE;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 0020321205     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291700046638     Document Type: Article

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