Suicide attempts recorded at a general hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;Tentativas de suicídio em um hospital geral no Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Cadernos de Saude Publica

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2201-2206

  Werneck, Guilherme L ^a,b   Hasselmann, Maria Helena ^a   Phebo, Luciana Barreto ^c   Vieira, Denise E ^d   Gomes, Vera Lúcia De O ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Secretaria de Estado da Saude de Sao Paulo   (Brazil)

^d Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Attempted Suicide; Descriptive Epidemiology; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749553546     PISSN: 0102311X     EISSN: 16784464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0102-311x2006001000026     Document Type: Article

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