Trends in suicide mortality in the deprived region of Epirus (North-West Greece) during the period 1998-2002

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-46

  Vougiouklakis, Theodore ^a   Boumba, Vassiliki A ^a   Mitselou, Antigony ^a   Peschos, Dimitrios ^a   Gerontopoulos, Kyriakos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; URBAN AREA; WIDOW;

EID: 14844354590     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.45.1.39     Document Type: Article

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