A vulnerability paradox in the cross-national prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 300-305

  Dückers, Michel L A ^a   Alisic, Eva ^b   Brewin, Chris R ^c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BELGIUM; BRAZIL; BULGARIA; CANADA; CHINA; COLOMBIA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DSM-IV; FRANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; ITALY; JAPAN; LEBANON; MEXICO; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; NIGERIA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; ROMANIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH KOREA; SPAIN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UKRAINE; UNITED STATES; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE; GLOBAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

CULTURE; EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84991784078     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.115.176628     Document Type: Article

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