The impact of economic austerity and prosperity events on suicide in Greece: A 30-year interrupted time-series analysis

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Branas, Charles C ^a   Kastanaki, Anastasia E ^b   Michalodimitrakis, Manolis ^b   Tzougas, John ^c   Kranioti, Elena F ^d   Theodorakis, Pavlos N ^e   Carr, Brendan G ^a   Wiebe, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c General Secretariat of National Statistical Service of Greece   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e Municipality of Athens   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FATALITY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; GREECE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE;

EID: 84922386100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005619     Document Type: Article

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