Reply: Suicide, recession, and unemployment

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9868, 2013, Pages 721-722

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a   Koupidis, Sotirios A ^b,c   Siamouli, Melina ^a   Grammatikopoulos, Ilias A ^d   Theodorakis, Pavlos N ^e,f  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c New Horizons   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^f Social Cooperative   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HUMAN; LATVIA; LETTER; LITHUANIA; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALARY; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; NOTE; STATISTICS;

ECONOMIC RECESSION; HUMANS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84874448128     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60573-5     Document Type: Letter

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