Correction: Suicide prevention through means restriction: Impact of the 2008-2011 pesticide restrictions on suicide in Sri Lanka (PLoS ONE (2017) 12:3 (e0172893) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172893);Suicide prevention through means restriction: Impact of the 2008-2011 pesticide restrictions on suicide in Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Knipe, Duleeka W ^a,b   Chang, Shu Sen ^c   Dawson, Andrew ^a,d   Eddleston, Michael ^a,e   Konradsen, Flemming ^a,f   Metcalfe, Chris ^b   Gunnell, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHOATE; FENTHION; PARAQUAT;

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; PREVENTION STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SRI LANKA; SUICIDE; TREND STUDY;

EID: 85014624155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176750     Document Type: Erratum

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