Climate-suicide relationships: A research problem in need of geographic methods and cross-disciplinary perspectives

Geography Compass

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1961-1974

  Dixon, Grady ^a   Kalkstein, Adam J ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SPATIAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 78049391399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00286.x     Document Type: Article

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