Imperfect prescription: Mental health perceptions, experiences and challenges faced by the Somali community in the London Borough of Camden and service responses to them

Primary Care Mental Health

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-56

  Palmer, David ^a  

^a Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Camden; Inequalitis; Mental health; Refugees; Services provision; Somali; Transcultural mental health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REFUGEE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 33845220606     PISSN: 14764717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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