Papageno v Werther effect

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 341, Issue 7778, 2010, Pages 848-

  Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas ^a   Voracek, Martin ^b   Herberth, Arno ^a   Till, Benedikt ^a   Strauss, Markus ^a   Etzersdorfer, Elmar ^a   Eisenwort, Brigitte ^a   Sonneck, Gernot ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; HONG KONG; LETTER; MASS MEDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; PUBLICATION; STATISTICS;

EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HONG KONG; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS; SUICIDE;

EID: 77958158637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c5841     Document Type: Letter

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