Use of health services for major depressive episode in Finland

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 79, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 105-112

  Hämäläinen, Juha ^a,b   Isometsä, Erkki ^a   Laukkala, Tanja ^a,b   Kaprio, Jaakko ^a   Poikolainen, Kari ^a,c   Heikkinen, Martti ^a,b   Lindeman, Sari ^a,d   Aro, Hillevi ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b Eastern Health Centre   (Finland)

^c Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Health services; Major depression; Use

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 17644443482     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0327(02)00342-7     Document Type: Article

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