The ethnic density effect: Results from a national community survey of England and Wales

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 34-46

  Halpern, David ^a   Nazroo, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LANGUAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; VICTIM; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WALES;

EID: 0034058232     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002076400004600105     Document Type: Article

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