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. 2008 Jan 29;178(3):282-5.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.071315.

Youth suicide prevention

Stanley P Kutcher  1 , Magdalena Szumilas
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Youth suicide prevention

Stanley P Kutcher et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1: Rates of suicide among youth aged 15–19 years in Canada, 1979–2004. Data source for 1979–1998: Langlois et al; data source for 2000–2004: Statistics Canada.
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Figure 2: Rates of suicide among people aged 15–24 years in Canada, the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. Rates for Canada were calculated as weighted means for the combined age groups 15–19 and 20–24 years. Rates for the United Kingdom were calculated as weighted means for the combined male and female groups.
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