Rural-urban differences in Austrian suicides

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 311-318

  Kapusta, Nestor D ^a   Zorman, Arno ^b,c   Etzersdorfer, Elmar ^d   Ponocny Seliger, Elisabeth ^a   Jandl Jager, Elisabeth ^a   Sonneck, Gernot ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Neurologische Klinik   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d Facharzt für Psychiatrie Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie   (Germany)

Author keywords

Prevention; Public health; Rural; Suicide; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 41549117918     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0317-1     Document Type: Article

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