The spatial pattern of suicide in the us in relation to deprivation, fragmentation and rurality

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2101-2122

  Congdon, Peter ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ETHNIC GROUP; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY RISK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; MORBIDITY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MORBIDITY; PSYCHIATRY; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960240789     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098010380961     Document Type: Article

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