Indigenous Australians' understandings regarding mental health and disorders

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 467-478

  Ypinazar, Valmae A ^a   Margolis, Stephen A ^b   Haswell Elkins, Melissa ^a   Tsey, Komla ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Indigenous; Mental health; Meta synthesis; Qualitative; Understandings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AUSTRALIA; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ETHNOGRAPHY; FAMILY LIFE; FEAR; HISTORY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; PEER REVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT PLANNING; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 34249309891     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701332953     Document Type: Article

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