Drug suicide: A sex-equal cause of death in 16 European countries

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Värnik, Airi ^a,b   Sisask, Merike ^a   Värnik, Peeter ^a,b   Wu, Jing ^a,b   Kõlves, Kairi ^a   Arensman, Ella ^c   Maxwell, Margareth ^d   Reisch, Thomas ^e   Gusmão, Ricardo ^f   Van Audenhove, Chantal ^g   Scheerder, Gert ^g   Van Der Feltz Cornelis, Christina M ^h   Coffey, Claire ^c   Kopp, Maria ⁱ   Szekely, Andras ⁱ   Roskar, Saska ^j   Hegerl, Ulrich ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^c NATIONAL SUICIDE RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^g KU Leuven University   (Belgium)

^h NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

ⁱ SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Slovenia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTOXICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERDOSE; POISONING; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SUICIDE;

EID: 79251578338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-61     Document Type: Article

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