Have urban/rural inequalities in suicide in New Zealand grown during the period 1980-2001?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1807-1819

  Pearce, Jamie ^a   Barnett, Ross ^a   Jones, Irfon ^a  

^a Department of Geography   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Deprivation; New Zealand; Suicide; Urban rural variations

Indexed keywords

HEALTH AND SAFETY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH MONITORING; MORTALITY RISK; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34447306988     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.05.044     Document Type: Article

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