International Journal of Community Based Nursing & Midwifery

International Journal of Community Based Nursing & Midwifery

When Infrastructure is Absent, Education Steps in: Limits of School-Based Suicide Prevention in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Document Type : Letter to the editor

Author
Department of Nursing, school of Nursing and Midwifery, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran

Highlights

Reza Abdollahi  (PubMed)

Keywords

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