A study of suicide and socioeconomic factors

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 214-226

  Ying, Yung Hsiang ^a   Chang, Koyin ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PANEL STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NORTH AMERICA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649337546     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2009.39.2.214     Document Type: Article

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