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Special Issue: Suicide and Resilience in Circumpolar Populations

Time trend by region of suicides and suicidal thoughts among Greenland Inuit

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Article: 26053 | Received 18 Sep 2014, Accepted 09 Dec 2014, Published online: 19 Feb 2015

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