A decrease in suicide rates in Japanese rural towns after community-based intervention by the health promotion approach

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 593-599

  Motohashi, Yutaka ^a   Kaneko, Yoshihiro ^a   Sasaki, Hisanaga ^a   Yamaji, Masako ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RURAL AREA; SUICIDE; WELFARE;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; JAPAN; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE;

EID: 36148988367     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2007.37.5.593     Document Type: Article

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