Ethnic variations in Youth Suicide

Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 262-280

  Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84923497382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139140348.012     Document Type: Chapter

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