Ethnicity and mental health: the example of schizophrenia and related psychoses in migrant populations in the Western world

Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 335-341

  Fung, Wai Lun Alan ^a,b,c   Bhugra, Dinesh ^a,b,c   Jones, Peter B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

African Caribbean; ethnicity; mental illness; migrant; migration; psychiatric symptoms; psychosis; schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG USE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RACISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHIZOPHRENIA; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

EID: 69449104682     PISSN: 14761793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mppsy.2009.06.002     Document Type: Review

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