The meaning of 'self-starvation' in impoverished black adolescents in South Africa

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 439-461

  Le Grange, Daniel ^a   Louw, Johann ^b   Breen, Alison ^b   Katzman, Melanie A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Eating disorders; Self report measures; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING DISORDER; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SOUTH AFRICA; STARVATION; STUDENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; STARVATION;

EID: 17644384822     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-004-1064-8     Document Type: Review

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