Psychache in context: States' spending for public welfare and their suicide rates

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 183, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 425-434

  Zimmerman, Shirley L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIVORCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGY; RACE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIVORCE; HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAIN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL CHANGE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029093675     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199507000-00002     Document Type: Article

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