Suicide rates, life satisfaction and happiness as markers for population mental health

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 333-337

  Bray, Isabelle ^a   Gunnell, David ^a  

^a Dept of Social Medicine ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Life satisfaction; Population mental health; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAPPINESS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PATIENT; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SUICIDE; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAPPINESS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGISTRIES; SUICIDE;

EID: 33646406027     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0049-z     Document Type: Article

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