The impact of culture clash on deployed troops

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 958-963

  Greene, Talya ^a   Buckman, Joshua ^a   Dandeker, Christopher ^a   Greenberg, Neil ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOLDIER;

CULTURE; FAMILY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PARENTS;

EID: 78650339670     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00146     Document Type: Article

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