Migration and psychotic disorders

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-76

  Veling, Wim ^a   Susser, Ezra ^b  

^a PARNASSIA PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

ethnic minorities; immigrants; incidence; psychotic disorders; social context

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIGRATION; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; RUBELLA; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL STATUS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TOXOPLASMOSIS; URBANIZATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 78650315578     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.10.91     Document Type: Review

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