Immigrants and Refugees: ThE Psychiatric Perspective

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 577-591

  Kinzie, J David ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

asylum seekers; clinical implications; immigrants; mental disorders; refugees

Indexed keywords

CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT;

ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG ABUSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REFUGEE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY; STARVATION; TERRORISM; VIOLENCE;

ACCULTURATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; REFUGEES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845276740     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461506070782     Document Type: Article

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