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Suicide Frequency before and after Introduction of Community Psychiatry in a Danish Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Johannes Nielsen
Affiliation:
The Institute of Psychiatric Demography and the Institute of Psychiatry, århus State Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
Thomas Videbech
Affiliation:
The Institute of Psychiatric Demography and the Institute of Psychiatry, århus State Hospital, Risskov, Denmark

Extract

The present study was made within the framework of the Sams⊘-project, a psychiatric service and research project in the Danish island of Sams⊘, which had a population of 6,823 in 1957 when the project was started.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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