Anticipatory stress in the population facing forced removal from the Gaza Strip

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 195-200

  Billig, Miriam ^a,b   Kohn, Robert ^c   Levav, Itzhak ^d  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Floersheimer Institute for Social Policy   (Israel)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Disengagement; Emotional distress; Israel; Population removal; Social capital; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALIENATION; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; RISK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ARABS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; POLITICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REFUGEES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33645098758     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000202489.78194.8d     Document Type: Article

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