Rural-urban differences in suicide rates for current patients of a public mental health service in Australia

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 376-382

  Sankaranarayanan, Anoop ^a   Carter, Gregory ^b   Lewin, Terry ^b  

^a Hunter Valley Mental Health Serives in Maitland ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC SECTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956905132     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/suli.2010.40.4.376     Document Type: Article

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