Unemployment and suicide. Evidence for a causal association?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 594-600

  Blakely, T A ^a   Collings, S C D ^a   Atkinson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEATH; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0042031563     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.8.594     Document Type: Article

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