Psychological Distress Among Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union to Israel
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Self-reported health status of immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel.
BACKGROUND A mass influx of immigrants from the former Soviet Union to western countries and Israel followed the demise of the Soviet Bloc at the beginning of the 1990s. It was expected that these immigrants would have a higher morbidity and mortality rate similar to that in the former USSR. OBJECTIVES To measure and compare self-reported diseases, subjective health and health services utiliz...
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تاریخ انتشار 2016