The geography of despair among 15-44-year-old men in England and Wales: Putting suicide on the map

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1040-1047

  Middleton, Nicos ^a   Sterne, Jonathan A C ^a   Gunnell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MENS HEALTH; MORTALITY; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOPELESSNESS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RANDOM SAMPLE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ENGLAND; HUMANS; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBURBAN POPULATION; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN POPULATION; WALES;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845271245     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.045302     Document Type: Article

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