Spatial clusters of suicide in Australia

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Qi, Xin ^a   Hu, Wenbiao ^b   Page, Andrew ^b   Tong, Shilu ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SEASHORE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; AGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; DEATH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUSTRALIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84865736513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-244X-12-86     Document Type: Article

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