Use of healthcare services 8 years after the war in Kosovo: Role of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 638-643

  Eytan, Ariel ^a   Gex Fabry, Marianne ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR; YOUNG ADULT; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 84867024370     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr096     Document Type: Article

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