A synthesis of the findings from the Quake Impact Study: A two year investigation of the psychosocial sequelae of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 123-136

  Carr, V J ^a   Lewin, T J ^a   Webster, R A ^a   Kenardy, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0031002482     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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