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EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: Prevalence of and Sex Disparities in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in an Internally Displaced Sri Lankan Population 6 Months After the 2004 Tsunami

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

Robert J. Ursano ,
David M. Benedek ,
Derrick A. Hamaoka ,
Carol S. Fullerton  and
Ronald C. Kessler
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2007 , pp. 41 - 43
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2007

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