Travelling with “excess baggage”: Health problems of refugee women in western Australia

Women and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-81

  Allotey, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REFUGEE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRAVEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 0032450969     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J013v28n01_05     Document Type: Article

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