Socioeconomic factors outweigh climate in the regional difference of suicide death rate in Taiwan

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 212-216

  Tsai, Jui Feng ^a,b,c  

^a BUDDHIST TZU CHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Climate; Socioeconomic factors; Suicide; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE; UNEMPLOYMENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLIMATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CAUSE OF DEATH; CLIMATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUICIDE; TAIWAN;

EID: 77956181528     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.06.044     Document Type: Article

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