Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 100-101 , March 2010

Relationships between suicide and three economic factors in South Korea

  • Ken Inoue

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi 470-1192, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Public Health, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, 1-98, Dengakugakubo, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake, Aichi 470-1192, Japan. Tel.: +81 562 93 2453; fax: +81 562 93 3079.
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  • Yukika Nishimura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie 514-8507, Japan
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  • Atsushi Nishida

      Affiliations

    • Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Tokyo 156-8585, Japan
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  • Tatsushige Fukunaga

      Affiliations

    • Tokyo Medical Examiner’s Office, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan
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  • Mina Masaki

      Affiliations

    • Warakukai Incorporated Medical Institution, Aichi 453-0015, Japan
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  • Yoshitsugu Fujita

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa 216-8511, Japan
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  • Masayuki Nata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine and Sciences, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Mie 514-8507, Japan
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  • Yuji Okazaki

      Affiliations

    • Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital, Tokyo 156-0057, Japan
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  • Yuichiro Ono

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Aichi 470-1192, Japan

Received 6 October 2009 ,Revised 27 October 2009 ,Accepted 5 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.11.002

Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 100-101 , March 2010

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