Epidemiology of psychiatric morbidity among migrants compared to native born population in Spain: A controlled study

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-99

  Qureshi, Adil ^a   Collazos, Francisco ^a,b   Sobradiel, Natalia ^c   Eiroa Orosa, Francisco Jose ^b   Febrel, Mercedes ^c   Revollo Escudero, Hilda Wara ^a   Andrés, Eva ^c   del Mar Ramos, María ^a   Roca, Miquel ^d   Casas, Miguel ^a,b   Serrano Blanco, Antoni ^e   Escobar, Javier I ^f   García Campayo, Javier ^c  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^e Fundacio Hospital Sant Joan de Déu   (Spain)

^f RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Migrants; Psychopathology; Transcultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LATIN AMERICAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRATION; MORBIDITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; SPANIARD;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICA, NORTHERN; ASIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872394804     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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