Treatment seeking for alcohol and drug use disorders by immigrants to the Netherlands

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 301-306

  Selten, Jean Paul ^a   Wierdsma, André ^b   Mulder, Niels ^c   Burger, Huibert ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Public Health Service of the Rotterdam Region   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Addiction; Alcohol abuse; Ethnicity; Migration; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG;

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURINAME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 33947383037     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0162-7     Document Type: Article

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