Time trends in suicide mortality vary in choice of methods

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 913-919

  Baumert, Jens ^a   Erazo, Natalia ^b   Ruf, Esther ^a   Ladwig, Karl Heinz ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Methods; Mortality; Suicide; Suicide prevention; Trends

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; DROWNING; FEMALE; GERMANY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HANGING; HUMAN; JUMPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SELF POISONING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRANGULATION; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; FEMALE; FIREARMS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55349116706     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0380-7     Document Type: Article

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