Cultural context is crucial in suicide research and prevention

Crisis

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 61-64

  Hjelmeland, Heidi ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DRUG EFFECT; EDITORIAL; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INTENTION; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL VALUES; SUICIDE;

EID: 79959518288     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000097     Document Type: Editorial

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