Family, migration, and psychosocial adjustment to illness

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 53-67

  Ben David, Amith ^a   Gilbar, Ora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMIGRATION; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; USSR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RUSSIA; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031472295     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v26n02_04     Document Type: Review

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