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New Perspectives on Migration Ethnicity and Schizophrenia
After a quarter century in which biomedical approaches have dominated discussions about schizophrenia and the influence of environmental factors has been neglected, interest in social determinants is reviving. Research in the Netherlands and other countries has demonstrated that the risk of a diagnosis of schizophrenia among certain migrant groups is strikingly higher than the norm and that soc...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000122822