The WHO/START study: Promoting suicide prevention for a diverse range of cultural contexts

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-106

  De Leo, Diego ^a   Milner, Allison ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PACIFIC OCEAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PACIFIC OCEAN; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77952364378     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2010.40.2.99     Document Type: Article

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