Mental health care of psychotraumatized persons in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina - Experiences from Tuzla Canton

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 474-484

  Avdibegović, Esmina ^a   Hasanović, Mevludin ^a   Selimbašić, Zihnet ^a   Pajević, Izet ^a   Sinanović, Osman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINICAL CENTRE TUZLA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Bosnia Herzegovina; Partial hospitalization; Postwar; PTSD; War

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; COMORBIDITY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MENTAL PATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WAR;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; COMBAT DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DAY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 56349136476     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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