Mental disorders and health care seeking in Bandiagara: A community survey in the Dogon Plateau

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 222-229

  Carta, M G ^a   Coppo, P ^b   Carpiniello, B ^a   Mounkuoro, P P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b Ctr Reg de Med Traditionelle   (Mali)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALI; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; TUBERCULOSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MALI; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0030911241     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00788242     Document Type: Article

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