Local daily temperatures, thermal seasons, and suicide rates in Finland from 1974 to 2010

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 286-294

  Hiltunen, Laura ^a,b   Haukka, Jari ^a,c   Ruuhela, Reija ^d   Suominen, Kirsi ^a,e   Partonen, Timo ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b JORVI HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e Department of Social Services and Health Care Psychiatry ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Ambient; Local; Meteorological; Regional; Risk; Weather

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPRING; SUICIDE; SUMMER; WINTER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84904095793     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-014-0391-9     Document Type: Article

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