Decreasing suicide in Hungary
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Suicide in Hungary-epidemiological and clinical perspectives
Annual suicide rates of Hungary were unexpectedly high in the previous century. In our narrative review, we try to depict, with presentation of the raw data, the main descriptive epidemiological features of the Hungarian suicide scene of the past decades. Accordingly, we present the annual suicide rates of the period mentioned and also data on how they varied by gender, age, urban vs. rural liv...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.177.1.84