High incidence of suicide by burning in Masjid-i-Sulaiman (southwest of Iran), a polluted area with natural sour gas leakage

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 829-832

  Saadat, Mostafa ^a   Bahaoddini, Aminolla ^a   Mohabatkar, Hassan ^a   Noemani, Koorosh ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b Masjid i Sulaiman   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Khozestan province; Self burning; Sour gas leakage; Suicide

Indexed keywords

SULFUR;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BURN; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEASON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUICIDE; WINTER;

ADULT; BURNS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIRES; FOSSIL FUELS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EID: 8844263126     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.06.003     Document Type: Article

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