Families on the fringe: Mental health implications of the movement of young families to non-metropolitan areas

Rural Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 306-317

  Rawsthorne, Margot ^a   Healy, Karen ^b   Hillman, Wendy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mental health; Rural; Service provision; Social exclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650039062     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.351.19.4.306     Document Type: Article

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