Sex- and age-specific trends in mortality from suicide and undetermined death in Germany 1991-2002

BMC Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Baumert, Jens J ^a,b   Erazo, Natalia ^b   Ladwig, Karl Heinz ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX; STANDARDIZATION; SUICIDE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE;

EID: 23044497841     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-5-61     Document Type: Article

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