The Consequences of Unplanned Repatriation

1973 ◽  
Vol 123 (572) ◽  
pp. 109-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aggrey W. Burke
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Genetic Factors ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Migration Studies ◽  
Native Population ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
West Indian Immigrants

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).

Mentally Ill West Indian Immigrants

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (478) ◽  
pp. 877-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. B. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Paranoid Schizophrenia ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
West Indian Immigrants

At present there exist in the literature numerous references to mental illness in different cultures; these vary from consideration of disorders peculiar to certain cultures, e.g. Koro, Latah, Amok, Wihtigo, etc., well reviewed by Yap (Yap, 51) to the problems of acculturation and mental illness. Examples of the latter include the studies of Tooth and Carothers, the latter suggesting that Westernization and detribalization increased the incidence of psychosis in Africans (Carothers, 2; Tooth, 45). Slotkin (42) pointed to the paranoid schizophrenia phenomena among acculturated Menomini. Hallowell (14, 15) found significant Rorschach differences between acculturated and unacculturated Salteaux.

Psychiatric Morbidity of West Indian Immigrants in an Urban Group Practice

1965 ◽  
Vol 111 (470) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Kiev
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Group Practice ◽  
Urban Group ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
Minor Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
West Indian Immigrants

Since 1948 a number of papers published in Great Britain have demonstrated the feasibility of studying the incidence and prevalence of both major and minor psychiatric disorders in general practice (3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18). Few, however, have focused on the health of West Indian immigrants in Great Britain, some 125,000 of whom have entered the country since that time (2, 12, 13, 20). This paper reports on the results of a six-month psychiatric morbidity survey of a group general practice in Brixton, the main purpose of which was to collect and compare data on the illness and consultation patterns of West Indian and English patients attending the same general practice.

The Relationship Between Schizophrenia and Immigration are There Alternatives to Psychosocial Hypotheses?

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (6) ◽  
pp. 783-789 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Eagles
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Obstetric Complications ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
Environmental Causes ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
West Indian Immigrants

Several recent studies have found markedly increased rates of schizophrenia among West Indian immigrants to the UK. Almost exclusively, authors have sought psychosocial explanations for these findings. This paper hypothesises that environmental causes, notably obstetric complications and perinatal infections, provide more plausible aetiological models, especially for the raised rates of schizophrenia among second-generation West Indian immigrants.

scholarly journals Contexts of risk and networks of protection: NYC West Indian immigrants' perceptions of migration and vulnerability to sexually transmitted diseases

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 513-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie Hoffman ◽  
Jenny A. Higgins ◽  
Sharlene T. Beckford-Jarrett ◽  
Michael Augenbraun ◽  
Kimberly E. Bylander ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexually Transmitted Diseases ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
West Indian Immigrants

CHILDREN OF WEST INDIAN IMMIGRANTS?I. RATES OF BEHAVIOURAL DEVIANCE AND OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER

1974 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Rutter ◽  
William Yule ◽  
Michael Bercer ◽  
Bridget Yule ◽  
Janis Morton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorder ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Indian Immigrants ◽  
West Indian Immigrants
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