Accentuation of suicides but not homicides with rising latitudes of Greenland in the sunny months

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Björkstén, Karin S ^a   Kripke, Daniel F ^b   Bjerregaard, Peter ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LATITUDE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; SUMMER; TREND STUDY; VIOLENCE; WINTER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPERIODICITY; SEASON; STATISTICS; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GREENLAND; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPERIOD; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; SUICIDE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 66649115072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-20     Document Type: Article

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