Gender differentials and state variations in suicide deaths in India: the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990–2016

The Lancet Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2018, Pages e478-e489

  Dandona, Rakhi ^a   Kumar, G Anil ^a   Dhaliwal, R S ^a   Naghavi, Mohsen ^a   Vos, Theo ^a   Shukla, D K ^a   Vijayakumar, Lakshmi ^a   Gururaj, G ^a   Thakur, J S ^a   Ambekar, Atul ^a   Sagar, Rajesh ^a   Arora, Megha ^a   Bhardwaj, Deeksha ^a   Chakma, Joy K ^a   Dutta, Eliza ^a   Furtado, Melissa ^a   Glenn, Scott ^a   Hawley, Caitlin ^a   Johnson, Sarah C ^a   Khanna, Tripti ^a   Kutz, Michael ^a   Mountjoy Venning, W Cliff ^a   Muraleedharan, Pallavi ^a   Rangaswamy, Thara ^a   Varghese, Chris M ^a   Varghese, Mathew ^a   Reddy, K Srinath ^a   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Swaminathan, Soumya ^a   Dandona, Lalit ^a   more..

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DISABILITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; FEMALE; GLOBAL DISEASE BURDEN; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INDIA; LITERACY; MALE; MARRIED WOMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SUICIDE; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBANIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; GLOBAL BURDEN OF DISEASE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85054896970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24682667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30138-5     Document Type: Article

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