Global mental health intervention research and mass trauma

Open Access Journal of Clinical Trials

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-69

  Meffert, Susan ^a   Ekblad, Solvig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Disaster; Global mental health; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA SYNTHESIS; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH; NATURAL DISASTER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCALE UP; SURVIVOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; WAR;

EID: 84875389254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OAJCT.S37037     Document Type: Review

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