Preventive agricultural medicine: A student’s perspective of farmers' mental health

Journal of Agromedicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 33-43

  Tabereaux, Paul B ^a,b   Wheat, John R ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Farmer; Mental health; Rural; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013213774     PISSN: 1059924X     EISSN: 15450813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J096v08n02_07     Document Type: Article

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