Mental health of displaced and refugee children resettled in low-income and middle-income countries: Risk and protective factors

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9812, 2012, Pages 250-265

  Reed, Ruth V ^a   Fazel, Mina ^b   Jones, Lynne ^c   Panter Brick, Catherine ^d   Stein, Alan ^b  

^a OXFORD HEALTH NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; BEREAVEMENT; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COSTA RICA; CROATIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMOTION; ERITREA; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; GROUPS BY AGE; HONDURAS; HUMAN; INDIA; INTELLECT; IRAQ; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL HEALTH; MEXICO; NEPAL; NICARAGUA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFUGEE; RELIGION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIETY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUDAN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THAILAND; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UGANDA; VIET NAM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84856088989     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60050-0     Document Type: Review

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