Suicide among Arab-Americans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  El Sayed, Abdulrahman M ^a,b,c   Tracy, Melissa ^a,d   Scarborough, Peter ^b   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Michigan School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARAB AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; ARAB; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951900551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014704     Document Type: Article

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