Age-period-cohort analysis of Swiss suicide data, 1881-2000

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 256, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 207-214

  Ajdacic Gross V ^a,b   Bopp, M ^b   Gostynski, M ^b   Lauber, C ^a   Gutzwiller, F ^b   Rossler W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age period cohort analysis; Suicide; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTRATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; SWITZERLAND; WAR;

EID: 33745629063     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-005-0627-1     Document Type: Article

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