Testing the Finno-Ugrian Suicide Hypothesis: Replication and refinement with regional suicide data from Eastern Europe

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 985-994

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Loibl, Lisa Mariella ^a   Kandrychyn, Siarhei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Emergency Care Hospital   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELARUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EASTERN EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; TOPOGRAPHY; UKRAINE;

BYELARUS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; UKRAINE;

EID: 34547239397     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.104.3.985-994     Document Type: Article

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