Distribution of distress in post-socialist Mongolia: A cultural epidemiology of yadargaa

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 471-485

  Kohrt, Brandon A ^a   Hruschka, Daniel J ^a   Kohrt, Holbrook E ^b   Panebianco, Nova L ^c   Tsagaankhuu, G ^d  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MONGOLIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Cultural epidemiology; Culture bound syndrome; Idiom of distress; Mongolia; Socioeconomic change; Yadargaa

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; POST-COMMUNISM; QUALITY OF LIFE;

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; MONGOLIA; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION RISK; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; WELLBEING; YADARGAA;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 0344064346     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00216-8     Document Type: Article

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