Health status of refugees from former Yugoslavia: Descriptive study of the refugees in the Netherlands

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 356-360

  Van Den Heuvel, Wim J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health status; PTSD; Refugees; The Netherlands; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REFUGEE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRAUMATOLOGY; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0031689873     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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