Suicides after the 1999 Taiwan earthquake
Author(s) -
YiingJenq Chou,
Nicole Huang,
Cheng-Hua Lee,
Shu-Ling Tsai,
Jen-Huoy Tsay,
Long-Shen Chen,
Pesus Chou
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyg296
Subject(s) - poison control , suicide prevention , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , human factors and ergonomics , medical emergency , medicine , geography , environmental health , pathology
The impact of a disaster on extreme post-traumatic responses of the victims, such as suicide, remains unclear. We conducted this study to investigate the risk of committing suicide between victims and non-victims after the 1999 Taiwan earthquake.
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