Socio-demographic correlates of psychiatric morbidity among low-income women in Aleppo, Syria

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1419-1427

  Maziak, Wasim ^a   Asfar, Taghrid ^b   Mzayek, Fawaz ^c   Fouad, Fouad M ^d   Kilzieh, Nael ^e  

^a Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine   (Germany)

^b Al Shahba   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^c Aleppo Directorate of Health   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^d Primary Health Care   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Low income; Mental distress; SRQ; Syria; Women

Indexed keywords

LOW INCOME POPULATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; WOMENS HEALTH;

ABUSE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; POLYGAMY; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

ALEPPO; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 0036127142     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00123-X     Document Type: Article

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