Mental hospital admission rates of immigrants in Switzerland

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-236

  Lay, Barbara ^a   Nordt, Carlos ^a   Rössler, Wulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gender; Migration; Psychiatric hospitalisation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HOSPITAL; MENTAL PATIENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; AFRICA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREVALENCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34247492148     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0157-4     Document Type: Article

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