Trends in suicide by poisoning in China 2000-2006: Age, gender, method, and geography

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 253-256

  Zhang, Xing ^a,b   Li, Hai Shan ^a   Zhu, Qiu Hong ^a   Zhou, Jing ^a   Zhang, Shuang ^a   Zhang, Lin ^a   Sun, Cheng Ye ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Department of Occupational Health and Poison Control ^*

Author keywords

Intervene; Pesticide; Suicide by poisoning; Tendency

Indexed keywords

EID: 47949110173     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-3988(08)60038-0     Document Type: Article

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