Mortality from suicide and other external cause injuries in China: A prospective cohort study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rebholz, Casey M ^a   Gu, Dongfeng ^c   Yang, Wenjie ^a   Chen, Jing ^a,b   Wu, Xigui ^c   Huang, Jian Feng ^c   Chen, Ji Chun ^c   Chen, Chung Shiuan ^a   Kelly, Tanika N ^a   Duan, Xiufang ^c   Bazzano, Lydia A ^a,b   He, Jiang ^a,b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79251588048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-56     Document Type: Article

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