Suicide by firearms on the island of crete: A 9-year record

Crisis

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 43-52

  Kastanaki, Anastasia E ^a,b   Kranioti, Elena F ^b   Papavdi, Asteria ^b   Theodorakis, Pavlos N ^c   Michalodimitrakis, Manolis ^b  

^a State Mental Health Hospital of Chania   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Municipality of Athens   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crete; Epidemiology; Firearms; Prevention; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FIREARM; GREECE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIREARMS; GREECE; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957005632     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000006     Document Type: Article

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