Mental health of deaf people

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9820, 2012, Pages 1037-1044

  Fellinger, Johannes ^a,b   Holzinger, Daniel ^a,c   Pollard, Robert ^d  

^a Health Centre for the Deaf   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REVIEW;

EID: 84858403127     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61143-4     Document Type: Review

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