The profile of suicide: Changing or changeable?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Judd, Fiona ^a,b   Jackson, Henry ^b   Komiti, Angela ^b   Bell, Richard ^b   Fraser, Caitlin ^c  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Monash University and Bendigo Health Care Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gender; Mental illness; Psychosocial; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857055296     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0306-z     Document Type: Article

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