Veteran mental health services in the UK: Are we headed in the right direction?

Journal of Mental Health

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 301-305

  MacManus, Deirdre ^a   Wessely, Simon ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SOLDIER; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERAN;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; VETERANS; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84880770723     PISSN: 09638237     EISSN: 13600567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638237.2013.819421     Document Type: Review

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