Patterns of suicide mortality in Russia

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 132-150

  Pridemore, William Alex ^a   Spivak, Andrew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037810967     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.33.2.132.22771     Document Type: Article

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