Regional Suicide Rate Change Patterns in Korea
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Corrigendum: Suicide Rate Differences by Sex, Age, and Urbanicity, and Related Regional Factors in Korea
OBJECTIVES Identify the characteristics related to the suicide rates in rural and urban areas of Korea and discover the factors that influence the suicide rate of the rural and urban areas. METHODS Using the data on causes of death from 2006 to 2008, the suicide rates were calculated and compared after age-standardization based on gender, age group and urbanicity. And, in order to understand ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1660-4601
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17196973