Abstract

A Socio-Epidemiological Analysis of the Risk Factors Associated With the Incidence of Suicide in two Alaskan Eskimo Groups (HV6546 L67 1979)

Louro M M

Year: 1979 Source: Thesis (M.A.)-University of Texas, 1979. 162p. SIEC No: 20040545

Through the operational definition of both host & environmental risk factors & an analysis of their relationship to suicide occurrence in specific Alaskan Native populations, a socio-epidemiological hypothesis is proposed to explain the observed increase in suicides in Alaska during the 1970s.