Cohort profile: Mental health following extreme trauma in a northern Ugandan cohort of War-Affected Youth Study (the WAYS study)

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Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Amone P'Olak, Kennedy ^a,b   Jones, Peter B ^b   Abbott, Rosemary ^b   Meiser Stedman, Richard ^c   Ovuga, Emilio ^a   Croudace, Tim J ^d  

^a GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84881236269     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-300     Document Type: Article

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