Suicide rates according to education with a particular focus on physicians in Norway 1960-2000

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 873-880

  Hem, Erlend ^a   Haldorsen, Tor ^a   Aasland, Olaf Gjerløw ^a   Tyssen, Reidar ^a   Vaglum, Per ^a   Ekeberg, Øivind ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DENTIST; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; NURSE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; POLICE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; THEOLOGY; TIME; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PHYSICIANS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE;

EID: 21044439525     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291704003344     Document Type: Article

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