From Treatment to Healing: The Promise of Trauma-Informed Primary Care

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 193-197

  Machtinger, Edward L ^a   Cuca, Yvette P ^a   Khanna, Naina ^b   Rose, Carol Dawson ^a   Kimberg, Leigh S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Positive Women's Network USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD ABUSE; CHILD NEGLECT; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; HEALING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; NOTE; OBESITY; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRAUMA INFORMED PRIMARY CARE; WELLBEING; WOMEN'S HEALTH; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MENTAL STRESS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84929079445     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2015.03.008     Document Type: Note

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