Suicide in South Asia: A scoping review

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jordans, Mark ^a,b   Kaufman, Anne ^a   Brenman, Natassia F ^a   Adhikari, Ramesh P ^c   Luitel, Nagendra P ^c   Tol, Wietse A ^d   Komproe, Ivan ^a,e  

^a Department of Research and Development   (Netherlands)

^b King's College London   (United Kingdom)

^c Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal   (Nepal)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Review; Scoping; South Asia; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BANGLADESH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MORTALITY; NEPAL; PAKISTAN; PEER REVIEW; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA; SUICIDE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIA, WESTERN; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924170246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-014-0358-9     Document Type: Article

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