Experience of human rights violations and subsequent mental disorders - A study following the war in the Balkans

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2170-2177

  Priebe, Stefan ^a   Bogic, Marija ^a   Ashcroft, Richard ^b   Franciskovic, Tanja ^c   Galeazzi, Gian Maria ^d   Kucukalic, Abdulah ^e   Lecic Tosevski, Dusica ^f   Morina, Nexhmedin ^g   Popovski, Mihajlo ^h   Roughton, Michael ^a   Schützwohl, Matthias ⁱ   Ajdukovic, Dean ^j  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

ⁱ DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

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Author keywords

Balkans; Ex Yugoslavia; Germany; Human rights; Italy; Major Depression; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); UK; War; War experiences and violation of human rights

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; DISABILITY; HEALTH RISK; HUMAN RIGHTS; MENTAL HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SYMPTOM; WAR;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RISK ASSESSMENT; WAR;

ADULT; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; ITALY; MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; RISK; SERBIA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

BALKANS; GERMANY; ITALY; UNITED KINGDOM; YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

EID: 78649449574     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.09.029     Document Type: Article

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