The impact of media reports on the 2008 outbreak of hydrogen sulfide suicides in Japan

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-140

  Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yasunaga, Hideo ^a   Toda, Alexis ^b   Sugihara, Toru ^a   Imamura, Tomoaki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Generalized method of moments; Hydrogen sulfide suicide; Media report

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE SUICIDE; INCIDENCE; INTERNET; JAPAN; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUICIDE;

HUMANS; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; JAPAN; MASS MEDIA; SUICIDE;

EID: 84870865584     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: 15413527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/PM.44.2.d     Document Type: Article

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