Suicide mortality trends by sex, age and method in Taiwan, 1971-2005

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Lin, Jin Jia ^a   Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^b  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; JUMPING; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; TAIWAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

EID: 40149092990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-6     Document Type: Article

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