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With a suicide rate (per 100,000 persons of the total population) of 23.0 in the years 1972–74, Austria ranked among the first in Europe1.
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Schöny, W., Hotmann, G., Sommereder, M. (1984). Concerning the Epidemiology of Suicide in Upper Austria. In: Hudolin, V. (eds) Social Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4535-0_46
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