Health disparities in military veterans with PTSD: Influential sociocultural factors

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 42-51

  Nayback, Ann Marie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

ACCULTURATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 85050902898     PISSN: 02793695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/02793695-20080601-08     Document Type: Article

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