Access to farming pesticides and risk for suicide in Chinese rural young people

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 217-221

  Kong, Yuanyuan ^a   Zhang, Jie ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Pesticides; Psychological autopsy; Risk factor; Rural China; Suicide; Suicide method

Indexed keywords

ACETOCHLOR; BUTOCLOR; CARTAP; DICHLORVOS; DIMETHOATE; INSECTICIDE; METHAMIDOPHOS; METRIFONATE; OMETHOATE; PARAQUAT; PARATHION; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDE; URBAN AREA; AGE; AUTOPSY; CHINA; COMPLICATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PESTICIDES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956187290     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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