Evaluating asylum seekers/torture survivors in urban primary care: A collaborative approach at the Bronx Human Rights Clinic

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 164-179

  Asgary, Ramil G ^a   Metalios, Eva E ^a   Smith, Clyde L ^a   Paccione, Gerald A ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYLUM SEEKER; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN RIGHTS; TRAINING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEE; TORTURE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33846929475     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065406     Document Type: Article

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