Changes in Scottish suicide rates during the Second World War

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Henderson, Rob ^a   Stark, Cameron ^a,b   Humphry, Roger W ^b,c   Selvaraj, Sivasubramaniam ^b  

^a NHS HIGHLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM; WAR; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTER; SCOTLAND; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SCOTLAND; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 33747143827     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-167     Document Type: Article

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