Evidence for lack of change in seasonality of suicide from Timiş County, Romania

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 94, Issue 3 PART 2, 2002, Pages 1071-1078

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Vintilǎ, Mona ^b   Fisher, Maryanne L ^b   Yip, Paul S F ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ROMANIA; SEASON; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ROMANIA; SEASONS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SUICIDE;

EID: 0036598301     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2002.94.3c.1071     Document Type: Article

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