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Psychiatric Morbidity in the United Arab Emirates

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Therapie im Grenzgebiet von Psychiatrie und Neurologie

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a recently born (1971) Arabian Gulf nation. Urban development has been massive in the last three decades. An increasingly heterogenous influx of expatriate workers and a rapid expansion of mass media communication led to strong interaction between Western values and Islamic tradition in an indigenous Bedouin population. Population composition is such that, at best, the native population constitutes 12%–20% of a total estimated 2 million inhabitants (Department of Planning and Research 1992). The characteristic demographic structure and rapid social changes consequent upon economic wealth were expected to have substantial effects on the prevalence and pattern of psychiatric morbidity in this country and in the surrounding countries that have undergone similar changes in the latter decades.

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  1. Emad Hamdi
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  2. Yousreya Amin
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  3. Rafia Ghubash
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  1. Psychiatrische Klinik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Nußbaumstraße 7, D-80336, München, Germany

    Hans-Jürgen Möller

  2. Neurologische Klinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im St. Josef-Hospital, Gudrunstraße 56, D-44791, Bochum, Germany

    Horst Przuntek  & Thomas Büttner  & 

  3. Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik, Universität Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Straße 25, D-53105, Bonn, Germany

    Gerd Laux

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Hamdi, E., Amin, Y., Ghubash, R. (1996). Psychiatric Morbidity in the United Arab Emirates. In: Möller, HJ., Przuntek, H., Laux, G., Büttner, T. (eds) Therapie im Grenzgebiet von Psychiatrie und Neurologie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61017-2_18

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