Gender-related mental health differences between refugees and non-refugee immigrants - A cross-sectional register-based study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hollander, Anna Clara ^a   Bruce, Daniel ^a   Burström, Bo ^a   Ekblad, Solvig ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMALIA; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; REFUGEES; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMALIA; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 79953104956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-180     Document Type: Article

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