Gender and suicide risk: The role of wound site

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-20

  Stack, Steven ^a,c   Wasserman, Ira ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Center for Suicide Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE;

FACE; FEAR; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; INTENTION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUICIDE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 63649140441     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2009.39.1.13     Document Type: Article

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