Underlying factors for the rapid increase of suicide in Mie Prefecture, Japan

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 345-355

  Inoue, Ken ^a   Abe, Shuntaro ^b   Okazaki, Yuji ^a   Fukunaga, Tatsushige ^c  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office   (Japan)

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EID: 28044471776     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/rsmmsl.45.4.345     Document Type: Article

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