Suicide rates in Shandong, China, 1991-2010: Rapid decrease in rural rates and steady increase in male-female ratio

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-368

  Sun, Jiandong ^a,b   Guo, Xiaolei ^b   Zhang, Jiyu ^b   Jia, Cunxian ^c   Xu, Aiqiang ^b,c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Shandong Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)   (China)

^c SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Gender ratio; Mortality; Suicide; Trend

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875221290     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: 15732517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2012.09.020     Document Type: Article

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