Explaining cross-state differences in elderly suicide rates and identifying state-level public policy responses that reduce rates

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 694-708

  Giles Sims, Jean ^a   Lockhart, Charles ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; POLICY; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUICIDE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846493455     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2006.36.6.694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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