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The state of research on the mental health effects of terrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Carol S. North  and
Betty Pfefferbaum
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2004 , pp. 4 - 9
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