Explaining suicide in an urban slum of Mumbai, India: A sociocultural autopsy

Crisis

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 192-201

  Parkar, Shubhangi R ^a   Nagarsekar, Balkrishna ^b   Weiss, Mitchell G ^c  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b HNE Health Service   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cultural epidemiology; Psychological autopsy; Suicide; Urban mental health; Verbal autopsy

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; SURVIVOR; WITCHCRAFT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE; SURVIVORS; URBAN HEALTH; WITCHCRAFT;

EID: 77949333100     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910.30.4.192     Document Type: Article

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