Issues in the identification of comorbidity of mental retardation and psychopathology in a multicultural context

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 190-194

  Slone, M ^a   Durrheim, K ^b   Kaminer, D ^c   Lachman, P ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RETARDATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032970991     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050132     Document Type: Article

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