Mental health, social functioning, and disability in postwar Afghanistan

JAMA

Volumn 292, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 575-584

  Lopes Cardozo, Barbara ^a,b   Bilukha, Oleg O ^a,b   Gotway Crawford, Carol A ^a   Shaikh, Irshad ^d   Wolfe, Mitchell I ^c   Gerber, Michael L ^a   Anderson, Mark ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d Veterans for America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HATE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; NUTRITION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 3242876645     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.5.575     Document Type: Article

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