Rural suicide - People or place effects?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 208-216

  Judd, Fiona ^a   Cooper, Anne Marie ^a   Fraser, Caitlin ^a   Davis, Julian ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collective; Compositional; Contextual; Place; Rural; Suicide

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FIREARM; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33644920415     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1614.2006.01776.x     Document Type: Review

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