Public health and population approaches for suicide prevention

Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 303-338

  Caine, Eric D ^a,b   Knox, Kerry L ^a,b   Conwell, Yeates ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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