Epidemiology of suicide in Brazil (1980 - 2000): characterization of age and gender rates of suicide Epidemiologia do suicídio no Brasil (1980 - 2000): caracterização das taxas de suicídio por idade e gênero
OBJECTIVE: To describe the suicide rates in Brazil in recent decades, drawing comparisons with the worldwide epidemiological situation. METHODS: Descriptive analyses of Brazilian suicide data, relating to the 1980-2000 period and extracted from the DATASUS database. Brazilian suicide trends were exa...
Main Authors: | Carolina de Mello-Santos, José Manuel Bertolote, Yuan-Pang Wang |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP)
2005-06-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462005000200011 |
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