Media suicide-reports, Internet use and the occurrence of suicides between 1987 and 2005 in Japan

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hagihara, Akihito ^a   Tarumi, Kimio ^b   Abe, Takeru ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; INTERNET; JAPAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; SUICIDE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MASS MEDIUM; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEASON; STATISTICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNET; JAPAN; MALE; MASS MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEASONS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 38349018218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-321     Document Type: Article

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