Spatial distribution of suicide in Queensland, Australia

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Qi, Xin ^a   Tong, Shilu ^a   Hu, Wenbiao ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; QUEENSLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; SUICIDE;

EID: 78649732102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-10-106     Document Type: Article

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