Guns and suicide in the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 989-991

  Miller, Matthew ^a   Hemenway, David ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIREARM; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50949118722     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0805923     Document Type: Article

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