Are the elderly more vulnerable to psychological impact of natural disaster? A population-based survey of adult survivors of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jia, Zhaobao ^a   Tian, Wenhua ^a   Liu, Weizhi ^a   Cao, Yang ^a   Yan, Jin ^a   Shun, Zhisheng ^b  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CDC of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHINA; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 77950380450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-172     Document Type: Article

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