Life events and parasuicides in hospital Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Malaysian Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 45-52

  Hamidin, A ^a   Maniam, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Case controlled; Life events; Malaysia; Parasuicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053094391     PISSN: 16758544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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