Temperature-associated suicide mortality: Contrasting roles of climatic warming and the suicide prevention program in Finland

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 349-355

  Helama, Samuli ^a,d   Holopainen, Jari ^b   Partonen, Timo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brown adipose tissue; Climatic change; Environmental health; Preventive medicine; Suicide

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; TREND STUDY; WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84884987032     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-013-0329-7     Document Type: Article

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