Somatisation among asian refugees and immigrants as a culturally-shaped illness behaviour

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 841-845

  Hsu, S I H ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorder; Major depression; Mental illness; Transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ASIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ASIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; REFUGEES; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS;

EID: 0033219439     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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