Mental illness and lost income among adult South Africans

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 845-851

  Lund, Crick ^a   Myer, Landon ^a   Stein, Dan J ^a   Williams, David R ^b   Flisher, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Health policy; Income; Mental disorder; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; STATISTICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AMERICA; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893647570     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-012-0587-5     Document Type: Article

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