Changes in stigma and barriers to care over time in U.K. Armed Forces deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq between 2008 and 2011

Military Medicine

Volumn 178, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 846-853

  Osório, Carlos ^a   Jones, Norman ^a   Fertout, Mohammed ^a   Greenberg, Neil ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOLDIER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION; WAR; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; MENTAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881493404     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00079     Document Type: Article

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