Associations between climate variability, unemployment and suicide in Australia: A multicity study

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Qi, Xin ^a,b   Hu, Wenbiao ^b   Page, Andrew ^c   Tong, Shilu ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Cities; Climate; Suicide; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY; UNEMPLOYMENT; VIOLENCE; CLIMATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

AUSTRALIA; CITIES; CLIMATE; HUMANS; SEASONS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84934294858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0496-8     Document Type: Article

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