Understanding the health of refugee women in host countries: Lessons from the kosovar re-settlement in Canada

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 322-327

  Redwood Campbell, Lynda ^a   Thind, Harpreet ^a   Howard, Michelle ^a   Koteles, Jennifer ^a   Fowler, Nancy ^a   Kaczorowski, Janusz ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

disaster; mental health; preventive medicine; refugee; reproductive health services; war; women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; CANADA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 58149171452     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005951     Document Type: Article

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