Impact of ethnicity, violence and acculturation on displaced migrants: Psychological distress and psychosomatic complaints among refugees in Sweden

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 357-365

  Sundquist, Jan ^a   Bayard Burfield, Louise ^b   Johansson, Leena Maria ^a   Johansson, Sven Erik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MIGRANT WORKER; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN; VIOLENCE;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; CHILE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POLAND; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; TURKEY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0034084684     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200006000-00006     Document Type: Article

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