A dose-response relationship between imitational suicides and newspaper distribution

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 137-145

  Etzersdorfer, Elmar ^a,c   Voracek, Martin ^b   Sonneck, Gernot ^b  

^a Furtbachkrankenhaus   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Furtbachkrankenhaus Stuttgart   (Germany)

Author keywords

Media; Prevention; Suicide; Werther effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 16844376467     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811110490270985     Document Type: Article

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