Mortality among homeless and nonhomeless mentally ill veterans

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 141-147

  Kasprow, Wesley J ^a   Rosenheck, Robert ^b  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOLDIER; SUPPORT GROUP; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALCOHOLISM; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 0034061854     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200003000-00003     Document Type: Article

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