Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 6 , Pages 511-515 , November 2007

Case-control study of unemployment and parasuicide

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.06.002

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 6 , Pages 511-515 , November 2007

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