Investigating the time lag effect between economic recession and suicide rates in agriculture, fisheries, and forestry workers in Korea

Safety and Health at Work

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 294-297

  Yoon, Jin Ha ^a,c   Junger, Washington ^b   Kim, Boo Wook ^a   Kim, Young Joo ^c   Koh, Sang Baek ^c  

^a Occupational Lung Diseases Institute   (South Korea)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Economic recession; Suicide; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879029820     PISSN: 20937911     EISSN: 20937997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.4.294     Document Type: Article

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