Mental health service use among immigrants in the United States: A systematic review

AS Derr - Psychiatric services, 2016 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Immigrants face stressors unique to the experience of migration that may
exacerbate or cause mental health problems but access care at rates far below the general …

The development and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in civilian adult survivors of war trauma and torture: A review

H Johnson, A Thompson - Clinical psychology review, 2008 - Elsevier
This review provides a comprehensive and critical summary of the literature as to the
development and maintenance of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following civilian …

Painful passages: Traumatic experiences and post‐traumatic stress among US immigrant Latino adolescents and their primary caregivers

KM Perreira, I Ornelas - International Migration Review, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Using data from a stratified random sample of 281 foreign‐born adolescents and their
parents in the United States, this study provides data on migration‐related trauma exposures …

Mental health of Cambodian refugees 2 decades after resettlement in the United States

GN Marshall, TL Schell, MN Elliott, SM Berthold… - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextLittle is known about the long-term mental health of trauma-exposed refugees years
after permanent resettlement in host countries. ObjectiveTo assess the prevalence …

Prevalence, risk, and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder across ethnic and racial minority groups in the United States

M Alegría, LR Fortuna, JY Lin, FH Norris, S Gao… - Medical care, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: We assess whether posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) varies in prevalence,
diagnostic criteria endorsement, and type and frequency of potentially traumatic events …

Identification of human trafficking victims in health care settings

SB Baldwin, DP Eisenman, JN Sayles, G Ryan… - Health & Hum. Rts …, 2011 - HeinOnline
Background An estimated 18,000 individuals are trafficked into the United States
eachjearfrom all over the world, and are forced into hard labor or commerdal sex work …

Health disparities based on socioeconomic inequities: implications for urban health care

K Fiscella, DR Williams - Academic Medicine, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Health is unevenly distributed across socioeconomic status. Persons of lower income,
education, or occupational status experience worse health and die earlier than do their …

[PDF][PDF] Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder

RJ Ursano, C Bell, S Eth, M Friedman, A Norwood… - Am J …, 2004 - academia.edu
It has long been recognized that stressful life events may cause emotional and behavioral
effects. In addition, the clinical phenomenon of PTSD has been known by various names …

Posttraumatic stress disorder among ethnoracial minorities in the United States.

N Pole, JP Gone, M Kulkarni - Clinical Psychology: Science and …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
Because ethnoracial minorities are a growing part of the US population yet are
underrepresented in the psychopathology literature, we reviewed the evidence for …

Changes in the health status of women during and after pregnancy

JS Haas, RA Jackson, E Fuentes-Afflick… - Journal of general …, 2005 - Springer
OBJECTIVE: To characterize the changes in health status experienced by a multi-ethnic
cohort of women during and after pregnancy. DESIGN: Observational cohort. SETTING …