The effect of catalytic converter legislation on suicide rates in Grampian and Scotland 1980-2003

Scottish Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 3-6

  Skilling, Gordon D ^a   Sclare, P D ^a   Watt, S J ^b   Fielding, S J ^b  

^a ROYAL CORNHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; HANGING; HUMAN; LAW; LEGAL ASPECT; POPULATION RESEARCH; SUICIDE; TOXIC INHALATION; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ASPHYXIA; CAR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; INTOXICATION; MALE; MORTALITY; NECK INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ASPHYXIA; AUTOMOBILES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECK INJURIES; POISONING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SUICIDE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 58849103044     PISSN: 00369330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/RSMSMJ.53.4.3     Document Type: Article

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