Two-year follow-up study of stress-related disorders among immigrants to Israel from the Chernobyl area

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue SUPPL. 6, 1997, Pages 1545-1550

  Cwikel, J ^a   Abdelgani, A ^a   Goldsmith, J R ^a   Quastel, M ^b   Yevelson, I I ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Chernobyl; Chronic illness; Depression; Immigrants; Longitudinal study; PTSD; Radiation; Somatization

Indexed keywords

CESIUM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTHRITIS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRAINE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOMATIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 0031446024     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105s61545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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