Changes in monthly unemployment rates may predict changes in the number of psychiatric presentations to emergency services in South Australia

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Bidargaddi, Niranjan ^a   Bastiampillai, Tarun ^a   Schrader, Geoffrey ^b   Adams, Robert ^c   Piantadosi, Cynthia ^c   Strobel, Jörg ^b   Tucker, Graeme ^d   Allison, Stephen ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Southern Adelaide Local Health Network   (Australia)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mental health; Times series modelling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCY SERVICE; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 84937785249     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12873-015-0042-5     Document Type: Article

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