Psychiatric morbidity and people's experience of and response to social problems involving rights

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 588-597

  Balmer, Nigel J ^a,b   Pleasence, Pascoe ^a,b   Buck, Alexy ^a  

^a Legal Services Commission   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Law; Mental health; Social justice; Social policy; Survey research

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT RIGHT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT RIGHTS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649467713     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2010.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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