Is there a relationship between elderly suicide rates and educational attainment? A cross-national study

Aging and Mental Health

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 795-799

  Shah, Ajit ^a   Chatterjee, Santanu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b WEST LONDON MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Elderly suicides; Intelligence; Suicide rates

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; EDUCATION INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 56749185229     PISSN: 13607863     EISSN: 13646915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13607860802427986     Document Type: Article

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