Modelling suicide and unemployment: A longitudinal analysis covering 63 countries, 2000-11

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 239-245

  Nordt, Carlos ^a   Warnke, Ingeborg ^a   Seifritz, Erich ^a   Kawohl, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMERICAS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923273237     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(14)00118-7     Document Type: Article

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