Forty years of increasing suicide mortality in Poland: Undercounting amidst a hanging epidemic?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Höfer, Peter ^a   Rockett, Ian R H ^b   Värnik, Peeter ^c   Etzersdorfer, Elmar ^d   Kapusta, Nestor D ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^d Furtbach Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Misclassification; Poland; Reliability; Suicides; Undetermined Intent; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872270476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-644     Document Type: Article

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