Trends in hospital admissions for eating disorders in a country undergoing a socio-cultural transition, the Czech Republic 1981-2005

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 541-550

  Pavlova, Barbara ^a,c   Uher, Rudolf ^a   Dragomirecka, Eva ^b   Papezova, Hana ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Czech Republic; Eating disorders; Epidemiology; Transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CZECH REPUBLIC; EATING DISORDER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS; URBANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EATING DISORDERS; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 77953276773     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-009-0092-7     Document Type: Article

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