Ethnicity and eating disorders: Implications for incidence and treatment

Psychopharmacology Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 265-274

  Pike, Kathleen M ^b   Walsh, B Timothy ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Pl 98 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

eating disorders; ethnicity; incidence; race; treatment

Indexed keywords

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEEDING DISORDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BULIMIA; EATING DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS;

EID: 0029743197     PISSN: 00485764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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