Spatial analysis of suicide mortality in Québec: Spatial clustering and area factor correlates

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 220, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 20-30

  Ngamini Ngui, André ^a,b   Apparicio, Philippe ^c   Moltchanova, Elena ^d   Vasiliadis, Helen Maria ^b,e  

^a Direction de l'enseignement universitaire et de la recherche   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL CHARLES LEMOYNE   (Canada)

^c CENTRE URBANISATION CULTURE SOCIÉTÉ   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; Public health; SatScan; Spatial analysis; Spatial clusters; Suicide; Suicide methods

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DROWNING; FEMALE; FIREARM; GENDER; HANGING; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; JUMPING; MALE; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRANGULATION; SUFFOCATION; SUICIDE; URBAN AREA; ETHNOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

HUMANS; MORTALITY; QUEBEC; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84908224665     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.07.033     Document Type: Review

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