Elderly Koreans who consider suicide: Role of healthcare use and financial status

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 244, Issue , 2016, Pages 345-350

  Park, Sang Mi ^a   Moon, Sang Sik ^a  

^a Hanyang Women's University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Elderly; Financial status; Gender; Healthcare utilization; Korean; Public assistance; Suicidal thoughts

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KOREAN (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SERVICE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; ADULT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOUTH KOREA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84989946258     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.04.055     Document Type: Article

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