Contacts with mental health services before suicide: A comparison of Indigenous with non-Indigenous Australians

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-191

  Sveticic, Jerneja ^a   Milner, Allison ^a   De Leo, Diego ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Help seeking; Indigenous populations; Mental health services; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE MAN; SINGLE WOMAN; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; URBAN AREA;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUEENSLAND; SUICIDE;

EID: 84857358968     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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