Effect of restricting access to a suicide jumping site

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 498-502

  Skegg, Keren ^a   Herbison, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Attempted suicide; Jumping; Prevention; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONER; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; JUMPING; MALE; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; POLICE; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARCHITECTURAL ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; SUICIDE;

EID: 68049098222     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670902873698     Document Type: Article

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