An atlas of suicide mortality: England and Wales, 1988-1994

Health and Place

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 492-506

  Middleton, Nicos ^a,c   Sterne, Jonathan A C ^b   Gunnell, David J ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Atlas; Bayesian hierarchical models; Mapping; Smoothing; Suicide mortality

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; ATLAS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MODELING; MORTALITY; SMOOTHING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDIZATION; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGEISM; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SUICIDE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 41149131814     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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