Suicidal Ideation Among Korean Elderly: Risk Factors and Population Attributable Fractions

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عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatry

سال: 2016

ISSN: 0033-2747,1943-281X

DOI: 10.1080/00332747.2016.1175837