Increase in suicides associated with home eviction and foreclosure during the US housing crisis: Findings from 16 national violent death reporting system states, 2005-2010

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 311-316

  Fowler, Katherine A ^a   Gladden, R Matthew ^a   Vagi, Kevin J ^a   Barnes, Jamar ^a   Frazier, Leroy ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ECONOMIC RECESSION; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921847708     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.301945     Document Type: Article

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