Depression in the planet's largest ethnic group: The Chinese

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 857-864

  Parker, G ^a   Gladstone, G ^a   Kuan Tsee Chee, ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CHINA; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MENTAL DISEASE; NEURASTHENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIZATION;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; CHINA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURASTHENIA; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STEREOTYPING; TAIWAN;

EID: 0034965913     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.158.6.857     Document Type: Review

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