Australian suicide rates and the National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 490-492

  Nielssen, Olav ^a   Large, Matthew ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHYXIA; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMUTILATION; DROWNING; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; STRANGULATION; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; WELLBEING; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME;

AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951263106     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048671003610120     Document Type: Letter

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