Trauma and mental health of medics in eastern Myanmar's conflict zones: A cross-sectional and mixed methods investigation

Conflict and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lim, Andrew George ^a,b,e   Stock, Lawrence ^c,d   Shwe Oo, Eh Kalu ^c   Jutte, Douglas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Tak   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e not available   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Burma; Burnout; Conflict; Depression; Healthworkers; Medics; Mental health; Myanmar; PTSD; Trauma; Vicarious traumatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880882833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1505-7-15     Document Type: Article

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