Mental health in sexual minorities: Recent indicators, trends, and their relationships to place in North America and Europe

Health and Place

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1029-1045

  Lewis, Nathaniel M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gay; Mental health; Meta analysis; Place determinants; Queer; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HEALTH POLICY; HOMOSEXUALITY; MENTAL HEALTH; META-ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEPRESSION; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; NETHERLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MINORITY; SEXUALITY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

BENELUX; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VERMONT; WESTERN EUROPE;

ADULT; BISEXUALITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NORTH AMERICA; PREVALENCE; RISK-TAKING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 69249222627     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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