The evolution of epidemic suicide on Guam: Context and contagion

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Booth, Heather ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GUAM; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLIC FIGURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; GUAM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POLITICS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77449148835     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2010.40.1.1     Document Type: Article

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