Research on controlling suicide: Methodological issues

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-99

  Stack, Steven ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIC GAS;

CONTROL; FIREARM; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUICIDE;

EID: 0031962262     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811119808258293     Document Type: Article

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