Suicide mortality in India: A nationally representative survey

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9834, 2012, Pages 2343-2351

  Patel, Vikram ^a,b   Ramasundarahettige, Chinthanie ^c   Vijayakumar, Lakshmi ^f   Thakur, J S ^e   Gajalakshmi, Vendhan ^d   Gururaj, Gopalkrishna ^g   Suraweera, Wilson ^c   Jha, Prabhat ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Toronto ^*

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d Epidemiological Research Centre   (India)

^e POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^f National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences   (India)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FIELD WORK; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SUICIDE;

EID: 84862599728     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60606-0     Document Type: Article

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