Medical downgrading, self-perception of health, and psychological symptoms in the British Armed Forces

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 250-254

  Rona, R J ^a,b   Hooper, R ^b   Greenberg, N ^b   Jones, M ^b   Wessely, S ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYABILITY; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PERCEPTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SHORT FORM 36; SOMATIZATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PERCEPTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33645663765     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.021311     Document Type: Article

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