Poor Self-reported Health and Sleeping Difficulties among Kurdish Immigrant Men in Sweden

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 445-461

  Taloyan, Marina ^a   Johansson, Leena Maria ^a   Johansson, Sven Erik ^a   Sundquist, Jan ^a   Koctürk, Tahire O ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

discrimination; immigrants; Kurdish men; self reported health; sleeping difficulties

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY; ARAB; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SWEDEN; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SLEEP DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; TURKEY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 33749636108     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461506066988     Document Type: Article

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