Completed Suicides in Colorado: Differences between hispanics and non-hispanic whites

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 445-452

  Betz, Marian E ^a   Krzyzaniak, Sara M ^b   Hedegaard, Holly ^c   Lowenstein, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^c Air Pollution Control Division   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COLORADO; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051479210     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1943-278X.2011.00044.x     Document Type: Article

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