Charcoal-burning suicide in post-transition Hong Kong
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Charcoal-burning suicide in post-transition Hong Kong.
BACKGROUND Charcoal-burning, a new suicide method, emerged in Hong Kong during the latest economic recession. Within 2 months charcoal-burning had become the third most common suicide method. AIMS To examine the characteristics of suicides by charcoal-burning, and to delineate the pathways linking macro-level economic and social changes with the subjective experiences of those surviving a cha...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.186.1.67