New patterns of suicide by age and gender in the United Kingdom and the Western World 1974-1992; an indicator of social change?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 227-234

  Pritchard, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOCIOLOGY; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EUROPE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030036339     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00785772     Document Type: Article

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