How do general practitioners experience providing care to refugees with mental health problems? A qualitative study from Denmark

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jensen, Natasja Koitzsch ^a   Norredam, Marie ^a   Priebe, Stefan ^b   Krasnik, Allan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Categorisation; Mental health; Migration; Primary care; Refugees; Trans cultural psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DENMARK; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; REFUGEE; WAR;

COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RAPE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REFUGEES; WAR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872816311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-14-17     Document Type: Article

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