Editorial: Mental health screening and coordination of care for soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-343

  Hicks, Madelyn Hsiao Rei ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; IRAQ; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; NEUROSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SCREENING; SOLDIER; SUICIDAL IDEATION; WAR; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MILITARY MEDICINE; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SUICIDE;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MILITARY PSYCHIATRY; SUICIDE;

EID: 79955127279     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.11010074     Document Type: Editorial

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