The influences of place of birth and socioeconomic factors on attempted suicide in a defined population of 4.5 million people

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 409-414

  Westman, Jeanette ^a   Hasselström, Jan ^b   Johansson, Sven Erik ^b   Sundquist, Jan ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIRTH; CENTRAL AMERICA; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EASTERN EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAZARD; HUMAN; INCOME; LABOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; POPULATION RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SWEDEN;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SWEDEN;

EID: 0037386028     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.60.4.409     Document Type: Article

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