Race/ethnicity and potential suicide misclassification: Window on a minority suicide paradox?

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rockett, Ian R H ^a   Wang, Shuhui ^b   Stack, Steven ^c   De Leo, Diego ^d   Frost, James L ^a   Ducatman, Alan M ^a   Walker, Rheeda L ^e   Kapusta, Nestor D ^f  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e West Virginia University ^*  (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77952317366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-35     Document Type: Article

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