The area-level association between hospital-treated deliberate self-harm, deprivation and social fragmentation in Ireland

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1050-1055

  Corcoran, Paul ^a   Arensman, Ella ^a   Perry, Ivan J ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUICIDE RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRAGMENTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUICIDE; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRELAND; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; REGISTRIES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; URBAN HEALTH;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36749096357     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.055855     Document Type: Article

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