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Pregnant migrant and refugee women's perceptions of mental illness on the Thai-Myanmar border: a qualitative study.
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BACKGROUND: Mental illness is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease, with prevalence highest in low- and middle-income countries. Rates are high in women of childbearing age, especially during pregnancy and the first year post-partum. Migrant and refugee populations are at risk of developing mental illness due to the multiple stresses associated with migration. The Thai-Myanmar border area is home to large populations of migrants and refugees as a result of long-standing c...
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12884-015-0517-0
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- Springer Science+Business Media
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- BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth More from this journal
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 93
- Pages:
- 93
- Publication date:
- 2015-04-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-03-24
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1471-2393
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English
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pubs:518607
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- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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