## Abstract ## Background The black and minority ethnic (BME) elderly population size in England and Wales has progressively increased over the last three decades. Only two studies, both well over a decade old, have compared suicide rates in BME groups in England and Wales with those in their coun
Methods of elderly suicides in England and Wales by country of birth groupings
β Scribed by Michael Dennis; Ajit Shah; James Lindesay
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 42 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.2253
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