Can we rely on suicide mortality data?

Crisis

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-3

  de Leo, Diego ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

DATA ACCURACY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; SUICIDE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84922844047     PISSN: 02275910     EISSN: 21512396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910/a000315     Document Type: Editorial

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