Epidemic of suicide by hanging in Lithuania: Does socio-demographic status matter?

Public Health

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 769-775

  Starkuviene, S ^a   Kalediene, R ^a   Petrauskiene, J ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Hanging; Lithuania; Method; Suicide

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENDER ISSUE; HEALTH IMPACT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FIREARM; GENDER; HANGING; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; JUMPING; LITHUANIA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRANGULATION; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE;

BALTIC STATES; EURASIA; EUROPE; LITHUANIA; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746375330     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.04.009     Document Type: Article

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