Factors Associated with Poor Mental Health among Guatemalan Refugees Living in Mexico 20 Years after Civil Conflict

JAMA

Volumn 290, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 635-642

  Sabin, Miriam ^a   Cardozo, Barbara Lopes ^b   Nackerud, Larry ^a   Kaiser, Reinhard ^b   Varese, Luis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c UN High Commissioner R SubOffice   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENDER; GUATEMALA; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MEXICO; MORBIDITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAR; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MEXICO; POVERTY; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 0043210735     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.290.5.635     Document Type: Article

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