General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 26, Issue 5 , Pages 346-358 , September 2004

Mental health service use 1-year after the World Trade Center disaster: implications for mental health care

  • Joseph A. Boscarino, Ph.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health and Science Policy, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, Room 552, New York, NY 10029-5293, USA
    • Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ, USA
    • Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 212 419 3551; fax: +1 212 822 7369.
    • ,
  • Richard E. Adams, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health and Science Policy, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue, Room 552, New York, NY 10029-5293, USA
    • ,
  • Charles R. Figley, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • School of Social Work, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
    • Florida State University, Traumatology Institute, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Received 22 March 2004 ,Accepted 26 May 2004.

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☆ Previous versions of this article were presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, Atlanta, GA, June 2003 and 19th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Chicago, IL, October 2003.

PII: S0163-8343(04)00066-0

doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.05.001

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 26, Issue 5 , Pages 346-358 , September 2004

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