Self-reported health complaints in a primary care population living under stressful conditions in the gaza strip, palestine

Medicine, Conflict and Survival

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-79

  Abu Mourad, Tayser ^a,b   Koutis, Anotonis ^a   Alegakis, Athanasios ^a   Markaki, Adelais ^a,c   Jildeh, Christine ^a   Lionis, Christos ^a   Philalithis, Anastas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b Ministry of Health Palestine   (Palestine)

^c AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Abdominal pain; Fatigue; Headache; Joint pain; Primary health care; Self reported complaints

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARAB; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARABS; ARTHRALGIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952480762     PISSN: 13623699     EISSN: 17439396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13623690903553269     Document Type: Article

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