The home foreclosure crisis and rising suicide rates, 2005 to 2010

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1073-1079

  Houle, Jason N ^a   Light, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; HOUSING; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ECONOMIC RECESSION; HOUSING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901023096     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301774     Document Type: Article

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