Increasing homicide rate in Finland accompanied by decreasing seasonality over the period 1957-95

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1695-1698

  Hakko, Helinä ^a   Räsänen, Pirkko ^a   Tiihonen, Jari ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Homicide; Seasonality; Trend

Indexed keywords

SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; FINLAND; HOMICIDE; INCIDENCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; VIOLENCE;

FINLAND; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; SEASONS;

FINLAND;

EID: 0344015758     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00254-8     Document Type: Article

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