Political change and course of schizophrenia in East Germany, 1984-1994

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 255-258

  Priebe, S ^a   Broker M ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; POLITICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; GERMANY, EAST; GERMANY, WEST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 0342298474     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050236     Document Type: Article

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