The relationship between suicide risk and sexual orientation: Results of a population-based study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-60

  Remafedi, Gary ^a,c   French, Simone ^b   Story, Mary ^b   Resnick, Michael D ^a   Blum, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 0031887634     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.88.1.57     Document Type: Article

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