Declines in the Lethality of Suicide Attempts Explain the Decline in Suicide Deaths in Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Spittal, Matthew J ^a   Pirkis, Jane ^a   Miller, Matthew ^b   Studdert, David M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUTOMUTILATION; EXHAUST GAS; FIREARM; GUNSHOT INJURY; HANGING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTOXICATION; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TREND STUDY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ASPHYXIA; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 84866038997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044565     Document Type: Article

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