Mental health status of human rights workers, Kosovo, June 2000

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 389-395

  Holtz, Timothy H ^a,b,c   Salama, Peter ^b,d   Cardozo, Barbara Lopes ^d   Gotway, Carol A ^d  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Human rights; Mental health; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANITIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RISK; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVENTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SOCIAL WORKER; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0036790452     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020133308188     Document Type: Article

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