Does misdiagnosis explain the schizophrenia epidemic among immigrants from developing countries to Western Europe?

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 937-939

  Selten, Jean Paul ^a   Hoek, Hans W ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; DENMARK; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; ESKIMO; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; MANIC PSYCHOSIS; MOOD DISORDER; MOROCCO; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOOD DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 57349108893     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-008-0390-5     Document Type: Editorial

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