Are there social correlates to suicide?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1919-1929

  Mäkinen, Ilkka ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Durkheim; Modernization; Suicide rates

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EUROPE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOMIE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 0343052749     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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