Psychiatry Research
Volume 151, Issue 1 , Pages 115-122 , 30 May 2007

Mental disorders among English-speaking Mexican immigrants to the US compared to a national sample of Mexicans

  • Joshua Breslau

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. University of California, Davis, School of Medicine Center for Reducing Health Disparities CRISP, Suite 1400, 2921 Stockton Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. Tel.: +1 916 703 9195; fax: +1 916 703 9116.
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  • Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine, Sacramento, CA, USA
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  • Guilherme Borges

      Affiliations

    • Mexican Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Ruby Cecilia Castilla-Puentes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, and GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., Collegeville, PA, USA
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  • Kenneth S. Kendler

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry and Human Genetics, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
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  • Maria-Elena Medina-Mora

      Affiliations

    • Mexican Institute of Psychiatry, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Maxwell Su

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Ronald C. Kessler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Received 10 May 2006 ,Revised 6 September 2006 ,Accepted 20 September 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.09.011

Psychiatry Research
Volume 151, Issue 1 , Pages 115-122 , 30 May 2007

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