Jews and their intraethnic vulnerability to affective disorders, fact or artifact? II: Evidence from a cohort study

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 149-156

  Kohn, Robert ^a   Levav, Itzhak ^a   Dohrenwend, Bruce R ^a   Shrout, Patrick E ^a   Skodol, Andrew E ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AFRICA; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS;

EID: 0030628817     PISSN: 03337308     EISSN: 26172402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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