Subjective quality of life in war-affected populations

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Matanov, Aleksandra ^a   Giacco, Domenico ^a   Bogic, Marija ^a   Ajdukovic, Dean ^b   Franciskovic, Tanja ^c   Galeazzi, Gian Maria ^d   Kucukalic, Abdulah ^e   Lecic Tosevski, Dusica ^f   Morina, Nexhmedin ^g   Popovski, Mihajlo ^h   Schützwohl, Matthias ⁱ   Priebe, Stefan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h SS CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY   (Macedonia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Post conflict Settings; Refugees; Subjective Quality of Life; War Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALKAN PENINSULA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALKAN PENINSULA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

EID: 84879808078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-624     Document Type: Article

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