Suicide and social change in China

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-50

  Phillips, Michael R ^a   Liu, Huaqing ^a   Zhang, Yanping ^a  

^a BEIJING HUILONGGUAN HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHINA; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0033093989     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005462530658     Document Type: Article

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