Health and Social Needs of Traumatized Refugees and Asylum Seekers: An Exploratory Study

Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-55

  Strijk, Patricia J M ^a   Van Meijel, Berno ^b   Gamel, Claudia J ^c  

^a Foundation Centre '45   (Netherlands)

^b INHOLLAND UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Needs; Needs assessment; Nursing; Refugees

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; NURSING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOCIAL WORK; VIOLENCE;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; REFUGEES; SOCIAL WORK; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 79951912958     PISSN: 00315990     EISSN: 17446163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2010.00270.x     Document Type: Article

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