Suicide risk among persons with foreign background in Denmark

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 481-489

  Sundaram, Vanita ^a,d   Qin, Ping ^b   Zøllner, Lilian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b National Centre for Register based Research   (Denmark)

^c Centre for Suicide Research   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; POPULATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE;

DENMARK; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 33748977639     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 03630234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2006.36.4.481     Document Type: Article

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