The cost of preventing stigma by hospitalizing soldiers in a general hospital instead of a psychiatric hospital

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 686-689

  Zrihen, Ilan ^a   Ashkenazi, Isaac ^a,b   Lubin, Gad ^a   Magnezi, Racheli ^a,c  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRIEF PSYCHOTIC DISORDER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOSIS; SOLDIER; STIGMA;

EID: 34447528977     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.7.686     Document Type: Article

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