Long-term suicide mortality rates decrease in men and increase in women after the Niigata-Chuetsu Earthquake in Japan

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-155

  Hyodo, Keiko ^a   Nakamura, Kazutoshi ^b   Oyama, Mari ^b   Yamazaki, Osamu ^c   Nakagawa, Izumi ^d   Ishigami, Kazuo ^c   Tsuchiya, Yasuo ^b   Yamamoto, Masaharu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Niigata Prefectural Government   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA SEIRYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disasters; Earthquakes; Epidemiology; Mortality; Sex; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE;

EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE;

EID: 77949426272     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.220.149     Document Type: Article

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