Effect of latitude on suicide rates in Japan [11]

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9348, 2002, Pages 1892-

  Terao, Takeshi ^a,b   Soeda, Shuji ^b   Yoshimura, Reiji ^b   Nakamura, Jun ^b   Iwata, Noboru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ASIA   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPAN; LATITUDE; LETTER; LONGITUDE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0037038875     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11761-2     Document Type: Letter

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