Community psychiatry: Results of a public opinion survey

International Journal of Social Psychiatry

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 234-242

  Lauber, Christoph ^a   Nordt, Carlos ^a   Haker, Helene ^a   Falcato, Luis ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOLOGY; STEREOTYPY; SWITZERLAND; VIGNETTE;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33745237186     PISSN: 00207640     EISSN: 17412854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020764006067200     Document Type: Article

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