Filicide in Austria and Finland - A register-based study on all filicide cases in Austria and Finland 1995-2005

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Putkonen, Hanna ^a   Amon, Sabine ^b,c   Almiron, Maria P ^d   Cederwall, Jenny Y ^e   Eronen, Markku ^a   Klier, Claudia ^b   Kjelsberg, Ellen ^f   Weizmann Henelius, Ghitta ^a  

^a VANHA VAASA HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEPRESSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; FILIXIC ACID; FINLAND; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; NOMENCLATURE; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHRONOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AUSTRIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; CRIME VICTIMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANTICIDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 71549133054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-9-74     Document Type: Article

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