Ethnic-related stressors in the war zone: Case studies of Asian American Vietnam veterans

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 968-971

  Loo, Chalsa M ^a,b   Lim, Brian R ^a   Koff, Gabriel ^c   Morton, Robert K ^b,d   Kiang, Peter N C ^e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Henke Hall ^*  (Guam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Guam Vet Center   (Guam)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BICULTURAL IDENTIFICATION AND CONFLICT; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNIC RELATED STRESSOR; ETHNICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RACE; RACIAL STIGMATIZATION; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; THREAT; VETERAN; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RACE RELATIONS; RISK FACTORS; STEREOTYPING; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 34548780365     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.172.9.968     Document Type: Article

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