Associations between the department of veterans affairs’ suicide prevention campaign and calls to related crisis lines

Public Health Reports

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 516-525

  Bossarte, Robert M ^a,b   Karras, Elizabeth ^a,b   Lu, Naiji ^a,c   Tu, Xin ^a,b,c   Stephens, Brady ^a   Draper, John ^d   Kemp, Janet E ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d Link2Health Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MARRIED PERSON; MILITARY SERVICE; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SUICIDE; TELEPHONE; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; UTILIZATION;

HEALTH PROMOTION; HOTLINES; HUMANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84908222617     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491412900610     Document Type: Article

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