Suicide in first- and second-generation immigrants in Sweden. A comparative study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 423-429

  Hjern, Anders ^a,b   Allebeck, Peter ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adoptees; Ethnicity; Inequality; Migration; Prevention; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTOXICATION; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SUICIDE; SWEDEN;

COHORT EFFECT; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SUICIDE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036939543     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-002-0564-5     Document Type: Article

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