Migration and schizophrenia

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 350-357

  Hutchinson, Gerard ^a,b   Haasen, Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Migration; Psychosis; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CENTRAL AMERICA; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FAMILY; FUTUROLOGY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOSIS; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

CARIBBEAN REGION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY; RISK FACTORS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 5644234193     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-004-0766-0     Document Type: Review

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