Attempted suicide among immigrants in European countries: An international perspective

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 241-251

  Lipsicas, Cendrine Bursztein ^a   Makinen, Ilkka Henrik ^b   Apter, Alan ^c   De Leo, Diego ^d   Kerkhof, Ad ^e   Lönnqvist, Jouko ^f   Michel, Konrad ^g   Renberg, Ellinor Salander ^h   Sayil, Isik ⁱ   Schmidtke, Armin ^j   Van Heeringen, Cornelis ^k   Värnik, Airi ^l   Wasserman, Danuta ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^b SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^k GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^l Suicidology Institute   (Estonia)

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Author keywords

Culture; Europe; Migration; Suicide; Suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIGRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84857060602     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0336-6     Document Type: Review

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