Descriptive profile of sex and psychiatric diagnosis among rural and peri-urban clinic attenders in South Africa

Psychological Reports

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 595-598

  Pillay, Anthony L ^a,b   Sargent, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATAL   (South Africa)

^b Midlands Hospital   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0038507520     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2003.92.2.595     Document Type: Article

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