Health and health care utilisation among asylum seekers and refugees in the Netherlands: Design of a study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-10

  Gerritsen, Annette A M ^a,b   Bramsen, Inge ^a,b   Devillé, Walter ^c   Van Willigen, Loes H M ^d   Hovens, Johannes E ^e   Van Der Ploeg, Henk M ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d Johannes Wier Foundation for Health and Human Rights   (Netherlands)

^e Delta Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRAN; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMALIA;

EID: 2942635753     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-4-7     Document Type: Article

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