Depression and post-traumatic stress disorder among Haitian immigrant students: implications for access to mental health services and educational programming.

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Published in BMC Public Health on December 22, 2009

Authors

Mary C Smith Fawzi1, Theresa S Betancourt, Lilly Marcelin, Michelle Klopner, Kerim Munir, Anna C Muriel, Catherine Oswald, Joia S Mukherjee

Author Affiliations

1: Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. mksfawzi@msn.com

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