+ Suicide and friendships among American adolescents
- Author:
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Bearman PS / Moody J
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Topics:
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Age Group, Public Health, Students, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Suicide Attempt, suicidal ideation, suicidility
The authors examined the association between friendship and suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among male and female adolescents, using data on 13465 adolescents from the 1994-1996 National Longitudinal...
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+ Suicide Acts in 8 States: Incidence and Case Fatality Rates by Demographics and Method.
- Author:
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Spicer, R. S / Miller, T.R.
- Date:
- 2000
- Publication:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Topics:
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Ethnicity, Legislation and Policy, Prevention, State, Suicide
- Keywords:
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Case fatality rates, Incidence, Suicide, demographics
To examine the frequency of medically confirmed suicidal acts and death rates by age, sex, race, and method used, data on 10,892 suicides and 57,439 attempted suicides among hospital-admitted individuals...
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+ Urban-Rural Shifts in Intentional Firearm Death: Different Causes, Same Results
- Author:
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Branas CC / Nance ML / Elliott MR / Richmond TS / Schwab CW
- Date:
- 2004
- Publication:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Topics:
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Homicide, Legislation and Policy, Suicide, Urban/Rural
- Keywords:
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HOMICIDE, Suicide, firearm, rural/urban
The authors examined intentional firearm deaths by urbanicity using federal data from 1989-99. While the most rural and most urban counties had similar rates of intentional firearm deaths, the rural ones...
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+ Changing times
- Author:
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Ajdacic-Gross, Vladeta / Killias, Martin / Hepp, Urs / Gadola, Erika / Bopp, Matthias / Lauber, Christoph / Schnyder, Ulrich / Gutzwiller, Felix / Rössler, Wulf
- Date:
- 2006
- Publication:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Link to Published Abstract
- Topics:
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International, Ownership, Public Health, Suicide
- Keywords:
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cross cultural differences, firearm availability, firearm laws, firearm suicides, suicide preventions
The authors investigated firearms suicides in 13 Western countries since the 1980s. Statistical analysis of longitudinal data (data over time) confirmed that the proportion of firearm suicides was correlated...
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