Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 10 , Pages 689-693 , October 2009

Gender-related explanatory models of depression: A critical evaluation of medical articles

  • A. Hammarström

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Division of Family Medicine and Umeå Centre for Gender Studies – Medicine; Research Programme Challenging Gender, Umeå University, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +46 90 785 35 47; fax: +46 90 77 68 83.
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  • A. Lehti

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Division of Family Medicine and Umeå Centre for Gender Studies – Medicine; Research Programme Challenging Gender, Umeå University, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • U. Danielsson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Division of Family Medicine and Umeå Centre for Gender Studies – Medicine; Research Programme Challenging Gender, Umeå University, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • C. Bengs

      Affiliations

    • Department of Sociology, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
    • ,
  • E.E. Johansson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Division of Family Medicine and Umeå Centre for Gender Studies – Medicine; Research Programme Challenging Gender, Umeå University, SE-901 85 Umeå, Sweden

Received 12 November 2008 ,Revised 15 July 2009 ,Accepted 16 September 2009.

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PII: S0033-3506(09)00264-9

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2009.09.010

Public Health
Volume 123, Issue 10 , Pages 689-693 , October 2009

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