'Hidden' suicides amongst deaths certified as undetermined intent, accident by pesticide poisoning and accident by suffocation in Taiwan

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-152

  Chang, Shu Sen ^a,b   Sterne, Jonathan A C ^a   Lu, Tsung Hsueh ^c   Gunnell, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Ju Shan Hospital   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Classification; Methods; Suicide; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOMUTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DROWNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTOXICATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASPHYXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DROWNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PESTICIDES; POISONING; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

EID: 77949356287     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0049-x     Document Type: Article

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