The media and suicide: Evidence-based on population data over 9 years in Taiwan

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 81-86

  Tsai, Jui Feng ^a,b  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Division of Cardiology   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TAIWAN; TELEVISION; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWSPAPERS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; TAIWAN; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77449131741     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2010.40.1.81     Document Type: Article

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