The gender gap in depression reconsidered: The influence of marital and employment status on the female/male ratio of treated incidence rates

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 202-210

  Gutierrez Lobos K ^a   Wolfl G ^b   Scherer, M ^a   Anderer, P ^a   Schmidl Mohl, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0342758608     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001270050229     Document Type: Article

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