Neighborhood safety and major depressive disorder in a national sample of black youth; gender by ethnic differences

Children

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Assari, Shervin ^a,b   Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African americans; Blacks; Depression; Ethnicity; Gender; Neighborhood

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119301450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22279067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/children4020014     Document Type: Article

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