Testing the Finno-Ugrian Suicide Hypothesis: Geographic variation of elderly suicide rates across Europe

Nordic Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 302-308

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Marušič, Andrej ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRIMORSKA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Elderly; Europe; Genetics; Geography; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BALTIC STATES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUNGARY; HYPOTHESIS; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; MALE; MORTALITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLOVENIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE;

AGED; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INCIDENCE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SUICIDE;

EID: 51249105583     PISSN: 08039488     EISSN: 15024725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08039480801984040     Document Type: Article

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