Life events, ethnicity and perceptions of discrimination in patients with severe mental illness

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 600-608

  Gilvarry, C M ^a   Walsh, E ^a   Samele, C ^a   Hutchinson, G ^a   Mallett, R ^a   Rabe Hesketh, S ^a   Fahy, T ^a   Van Os, J ^b   Murray, R M ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH; HOUSING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0033501217     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050181     Document Type: Article

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