Gender, Traumatic Events, and Mental Health Disorders in a Rural Asian Setting

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 444-461

  Axinn, William G ^a   Ghimire, Dirgha J ^a   Williams, Nathalie E ^b   Scott, Kate M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Asia; gender; mental health; trauma; violent events

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; COMPLICATION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VERY ELDERLY; VIOLENCE; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; POVERTY AREAS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890080107     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: 21506000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022146513501518     Document Type: Article

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