Rates and correlates of undetermined deaths among African Americans: Results from the national violent death reporting system

Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 185-196

  Huguet, Nathalie ^a   Kaplan, Mark S ^a   McFarland, Bentson H ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DOCUMENTATION; ETHNOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DOCUMENTATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84859712053     PISSN: 03630234     EISSN: 1943278X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1943-278X.2012.00081.x     Document Type: Article

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