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Trends in suicide mortality, 1955–1989: America, Africa, Asia and oceania

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  1. Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive, Lausanne

    Carlo La Vecchia, Franca Lucchini & Fabio Levi

  2. Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri” et Instituto di Biometria e statistica Medica, Universitè di Milano, Milano

    Carlo La Vecchia & Eva Negri

  3. Registre Vaudois des Tumeurs, Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive, Switzerland

    Fabio Levi

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La Vecchia, C., Lucchini, F., Levi, F. et al. Trends in suicide mortality, 1955–1989: America, Africa, Asia and oceania. Soz Präventivmed 39, 93–109 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01360102

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