Effective Screening for Emotional Distress in Refugees: The Refugee Health Screener

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

• Publication date

  2016-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000469PMID 26825376
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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