National suicide rates and mental health system indicators: an ecological study of 191 countries.

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Published in Int J Law Psychiatry on July 17, 2013

Authors

A P Rajkumar1, E M Brinda, A S Duba, P Thangadurai, K S Jacob

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus - 8000, Denmark. Electronic address: antoprajkumar@yahoo.com.

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