Physical and mental health costs of traumatic war experiences among Civil War veterans

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-200

  Pizarro, Judith ^a   Silver, Roxane Cohen ^a,b   Prause, Joann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARMY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; PRISONER; RISK ASSESSMENT; VETERAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; ARCHIVES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COMBAT DISORDERS; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH STATUS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRISONERS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 32244442682     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.63.2.193     Document Type: Article

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