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The Consequences of Unplanned Repatriation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Aggrey W. Burke
Aggrey W. Burke*
Affiliation:
Bellevue Hospital, Jamaica; now at Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH
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In attempting to resolve the issue of the relative importance of environmental and genetic factors in mental illness migration studies have been inconclusive (Dohrenwend and Dohrenwend, 1969). Among West Indian immigrants an increased incidence of mental disorder as compared to the native population and the population at home has been suggested (Hemsi, 1967). Other workers have attached great importance to environmental factors in explaining the atypical picture of West Indian mental illness (Gordon, 1965; Tewfik and Okasha, 1965).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 123 , Issue 572 , July 1973 , pp. 109 - 111
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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