Depression and modernization: A cross-cultural study of women

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 271-279

  Colla, Judith ^a   Buka, Stephan ^b   Harrington, David ^b   Murphy, Jane M ^b,c  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Epidemiology; Modernization; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AGE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILDLESSNESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; NORTH AMERICA; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RELIGION; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

CANADA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645342494     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-006-0032-8     Document Type: Article

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