Towards an explanation of inconsistent rates of posttraumatic stress disorder across different countries: Infant mortality rate as a marker of social circumstances and basic population health

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 56-57

  Matsuoka, Yutaka ^a,b,c   Nishi, Daisuke ^a,b,c   Yonemoto, Naohiro ^a,c   Nakajima, Satomi ^a,c   Kim, Yoshiharu ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b National Disaster Medical Center   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; JAPAN; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 70449647036     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000259418     Document Type: Letter

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