Correlates of Alaska Native fatal and nonfatal suicidal behaviors 1990-2001

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-320

  Wexler, Lisa ^a   Hill, Ryan ^b   Bertone Johnson, Elizabeth ^a   Fenaughty, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Alaska Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALASKA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENSUSES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INUITS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49649123850     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2008.38.3.311     Document Type: Article

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