First reliable data suggest a possible increase in suicides in Greece

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7920, 2013, Pages

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a   Koupidis, Sotirios A ^b   Grammatikopoulos, Ilias A ^c   Theodorakis, Pavlos N ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b New Horizons   (Greece)

^c 8th Athens Mental Health Sector ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; GREECE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY;

BUDGETS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84882386376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f4900     Document Type: Letter

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